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R SCHRONOLOGICAL INDEX to the Ordinances, Orders in Council, Governor's Orders, Magistrate's Orders, Rules and Proclamations of Sierra Leone, Imperial Statute and Orders of the King in Council, etc., affecting Sierra Leone, enacted and made during the year 1934. ((Note.-The titles of enactments which are no longer operative are printed in italics.) ORDINANCES. Subject. DCoae n Remarks. _Comin-encemeniit. a 14 1 I Customs Tariff (Amendment) Importation of Textiles (Quotas) 21 Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment) 26 Arms and Ammunition (Amend- 28 mrent) Undesirable Advertisements 30 Fangay Amendment) 32 Crown Lands Conservancy(Amend- 34 ment) (1933) Supplementary Appropriation 36 Medical Practitioners, Dentists and 38 Druggists (Amendment) 10 April. 1934 16 June, 1934 23 June, 1934 1 January, 1934 23 June, 1934 23 June, 1934 23 June, 1934 23 June, 1934 23 June, 1934 Repeals sections 4 5 (1) (c) and Second Schedule of Ordinance No. 1 of 1932; amends sections 13, 15, 16, 17 (3), the Third and Fourth Sche- dules, and also repeals and le- places the First Schedule. Amended by Or- dinance No. 24 of 1934. Repeals and re- places section 5 (1) of Cap. 239. Inserts new sec- tion 29A in Cap. 11. Amends the long title and sections 1. 5, 6 and 7 of Cap. 67. Repeals and re- places sections 4 and 8 (2) of Cap. 45. Spent. Inserts new sec- tions 13B and 13c in Cap. 125 : also repeals and re- places section 14. I ii ORDINANCES-continued. Subject. Commencement. 10 Protectorate (Amendment) Light and Harbour Dues (Amend- meut) Freetown Municipality (Amend- ment) 13 Fruit Export (Amendment) 14 (1935) Appropriation 15 W wireless Telegraphy (Amendment) (No. 2) 16 Currency Notes (Repeal) 17 Protectorate Vagrancy 18 Stamp Duty (Amendment) 19 Frederick Albert Mathias Pension 20 Prisons (Amendment) 21 Public Health (Amendment) 40 9 December, 1933 23 June, 1934 46 23 June, 1934 50 23 June, 1934 1 January, 1935 7 December, 1934 7 December, 1934 7 December, 1934 7 December, 1934 14 September, 1934 7 December, 1934 7 December, 1934 Repeals and re- places sections 5 (2) and 34 of Ordinance No. 32 of 1933 ; inserts new Part 11A and section 33A ; also amends sec- tion 52 (2) and the Fourth and Fifth Schedules thereto. Amends section 2 of Cap. 109 ; also repeals sections 12 and 13 and the Schedule there- to. Amends sections 8 (2), 21 (4), 53, 59, 63 (2) (b) and 163 of Ordinance No. 38 of 1927; also repeals and replaces sections 9 (3), 67, 69 (4) (a), 165 and 168. Amends sections 2, 3, 4 and 10 of Ordinance No. 25 of 1933; also inserts new sec- tion 3A therein. Temporary. Amends sections 1, 4 and 5 of Cap. 239. Repeals Cap. 46. Adds new section 14A to Cap. 199. Amends section 11 (1) and inserts new section 30A in Cap. 162. Amends section 19 and inserts new section 19A in Cap. 171 ; also amends clause 2 of the Public Health (Swine) Order in Council 1924. -- ORDINANCES-continued. iii Subject. Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volun- teer Reserve Force Non-Native Poll Tax (Amendment) Importation of (Amendment) Textiles (Quotas) Court Messengers (Amendment) Roger Ernest Page Pension Customs (Amendment) 28 1 Pawnbrokers Royal West African Frontier Force (Amendment) Employers and Employed Criminal Proce.lure (Amendment) Date of Commencement. To come into operation on such date as the Governor by notice in the Gazette shall appoint 1 January, 1935 77 16 June, 1934 79 7 December, 1934 81 12 October, 1934 83 7 December, 1934 85 1 January, 1935 107 7 December, 1934 109 1 January, 1935 156 7 December, 1934 Remarks. Amends tempo- rarily sections 3 (1) and 4 of Ordinance No. 28 of 1931. Amends section 1 of Ordinance No. 2 of 1934. Repeals and re- places section 4 (2) of Ordinance No. 13 of 1931; amends section 27 (1) and inserts new section 6A therein. Repeals and re- places section 223 of Cap. 49; also repeals sec- tion 224, Makes minor amendments of Cap. 189, Ordin- ance No. 38 of 1927 and the Sherbro Judicial District Rules, 1924. Repeals and re- places section 53 of Cap, 235. Repeals Caps. 9, 120 and 133. Repeals and re- places section 11 (iii) of. Ordin- ance No. 38 of 1932. I _- '--I-- ---~--~-- iv ORDERS IN COUNCIL. Subject Protectorate (Administrative sions) (Amendment) Divi- 2 I'Public Hloliday (Empire Day) 159 3 Public Health (Infectious'Diseases) 160 Brima Nomo Banishment Fodi Kabineh Banishment Momo Kaneh Banishmcnt Brimah Kraji Banishment Ibrahim Fogbawa Banishment Control of Rice (Revocation) Customs meant) Minerals (Transit Sheds) (Amend- 12 Pensionable Offices 13 HItuse Ta.r (Extension of Time) 14 Customs Tariff (Amendment) Manufactured Gold (Export Pro- hibition) Freetown Municipal Council (Arrears of Rates) Prisons (Batkanu) Protectorate Health Areas (Amend- ment) Freetown Cattle Market Freetown Municipal (Arrears of Payments) Council Date of Commence iment, 1 February, 1934 1 March, 1934 8 March, 1934 1 March, 1934 1 March. 1934 1 March, 1934 1 March, 1934 1 March, 1934 8 March, 193-4 172 26 April, 1934 173 26 April, 1934 3 May, 1934 182 3 Ma,, 1934 184 14 June, 1.)34 190 23 June, 1934 5 July, 1934 192 23 August, 1934 193 20 September, 1934 194 18 October, 1934 195 8 November, 1934 Remarks. Amends Schedule B to Order in Council No. 21 of 193U. Spent. Extends section 43 of Cap. 171 to human rabies. Revokes Order in Council No. 14 of 1933. Amends Schedule to the Customs (Transit Sheds) Order in Coun- cil, 1924. Revokes and re- places Order in Council No. 24 of 1929. Revokes and re- places Order in Council No. 20 of 1933. Spent. Amends First Schedule to Ordinance No. 1 of 1932. Amends First ,' No. 20 of 1931. 15 16 17 ,18 19 20 - I I- ORDERS IN COUNCIL-continued. GOVERNOR'S ORDERS. Subject. 1 Fruit Export 2 Official Oaths 3 Pensions (European Officers) (Voluntary Retirement) 4 European Reserve Force 5 Bush Fire Prevention (Protective Belts) (Protectorate) (Amend- ment) 6 Fugitive Criminals (Amendment) Surrender 7 Pensions (European Olticers) (Voluntary Retirement) (No. 2) 206 Date of Remarks. Commencem t Remarks. 1 February, 1934 1 February, 1931 1 February, 19:3 Adds officer to Schedule to Ordinance No. 4 of 1933. 22 February, 1934 17 May, 1934 Amends Schedule to Order No. 11 of 1932. 13 September, 1934 Amends clause 2 of the Fugitive Criminals Sur- render Order, I1924. 15 Nove'ubr, 1'934 Addition to Sche- dule to Ordin- ance No. 4 of 1933. vi MAGISTRATE'S ORDERS. Subject. )ate o Remrks. SCormmnencement. 1 Dogs (Prevention of II/rfrop;hobia 213 25 February, 1934 Revoked by Ma- (Rabies)) gistrato's Order No. 2 of 1934. 2 Dogs Prevention of Hydrophobia 215 25 August, 1934 Revokes Magis- (Rabies) ) Revocation) trate's Order No. 1 of 1931. RULES. Subject. Railway (Coaching Tariff) (Amend- ment) Customs Tariff (Amendment) Fruit Export General Mineials (Amendment) Railway (Goods Tariff) (Amend- ment) Pensions (European (Amendment) Ollicers) 229 Animals Diseases (Control of Dogs) 231 Importation of Textiles (Quotas) 233 Animals Diseases (Control of Dogs) 234 (Revocation) bo Date of Conueiincernult. 217 8 February, 1934 218 8 February, 1934 224 1 June, 1934 226 26( April, 1934 227 24 May, 1934 7 June, 193-1 11 June, 1934 23 August, 1934 25 August, 1931 Remarks. Inserts new rule 33A in Railway (Coaching Tariff) Rules, 1924. Revokes and re- places Rule 20 of the Customs Tariff Rules, 1932; inserts new rules 21A, 21B, 21c, 211) and Lists I and II therein : also revokes rules 3 and 4 of Rules No. 22 of 1933. Amends Second Schedule to the General Minerals Rules, 1928 to 1930. Revokes and re- places rule 55 and amends Sche- dule G to Rail- way (Goods Tariff) Rules, 1924. Revokes and re- places rule 19 of the rules in the First Schedule to Cap. 146. Revoked by Rules No. 9 of 1931. Re evokes Rules No. 7 of 1934. ---- -~I- --s~--Y I -i-- -~-- RITLES-continued. vii - -- -D'ite of Subject. Supreme Court (Amendment) Kroo Tribal (Amendment) Date of Commencement. 13 September, 1934 Administration 236 20 September, 1934 Animals Diseases (Control of Dogs) (No. 2) Matrimonial Causes Supreme Court Probate Fees 29 September, 1934 11 October, 1934 Non-contentious 2401 11 October, 1934 Road Traffic (Freetown Cattle) Native Courts British Nationality and Status of Aliens (Fees) (Amendment) Motor Traffic (Amendment) General Minerals (Amendment) (No. 2) Pensions (European (Amendment) (No 2) Officers 256 Education (Colony) (Amendment) Births and Dea (Fees) Circuit Court Midwives Customs Tariff (No. 2) iths Registraion 259 (Amnendment) 18 October, 1934 25 October, 1934 31 October. 1934 253 1 January, 1935 254 22 November, 1934 6 December, 1934 6 December, 1934 6 December, 1934 6 December, 1934 1 January, 1935 31 December, 1934 Remarks. Revokes and re- places item 43 of Appendix M of the Supreme Court Rules, 1924. Revokes rule 18 and adds new rule 18 to Rules No. 9 of 1933. Amends Order LIX rule 1, ana Appendix M of the Supreme Court Rules, 1924. Revokes Schedule B to the Pro- bates (British and Colonial) Recognition Rules, 1924. Amends Schedule to Cap. 20. Amends Schedule II to Rules No. 32 of 1930. Revokes and re- places rule 5 of the General Minerals Rules, 1928 to 1930 ; also revokes Rules No. 23 of 1931. Amends Rule 19 (3) of Rules in Schedule I to Cap. 146. Amends Rules 61 and 62 of Rules in Second Sche- dule to Ordinance No. 30 of 1929. Amends Schedule N of Cap. 16. Revokes and re- places List I to the Customs Tariff Rules, 1932. 26 Wireless Telegraphy (Licences) 1 January, 1935 viii WEST AFRICAN COURT OF APPEAL AMENDMENT RtILE'. West African Court of Appeal (Amendment) Rules, 1934............p, 315 PROCLAMATIONS. Subject. Prevention of Hydrophobia Importation of Textiles (Quotas) Assumption of the administration of the Colony by His Excellency Thomas Nelson Goddard, M.B E. Importation of Textiles (Quotas) Assumption of the administration of the Colony by His Excellency Thomas Nelson Goddard, M.B.E. Prorogation of Legislative Council (Tenth Session) Assumption of the administration of the Colony by His Excellency Hilary Rudolph Blood, C.M.G. Assumption of the administration of the Colony by His Excellency Thomas Nelson Goddard, M.B.E. Legislative Council (Date of com- mencement of Eleventh Session) Date of Remarks. Commencement.. 24th February, 1934 Spent. 16 June, 1934 Spent. 27 June, 1934 Spent. 322 1 January, 1935 323 20 October, 1934 325 25 October, 1934 326 27 October, 1934 328 2 November, 1934 330 8 November, 1934 Spent. Spent. Spent, Spent. Spent. IMPERIAL STATUTE AND ORDERS OF THE KING IN COUNCIL. Subject. British Nationality and Status of Aliens Act, 1933 Foreign Marriages (Amendment) Order in Council, 1933 West African (Appeal to Privy Council) (Amendment) Order in Council, 1934 West African Court of Appeal (Further Amendment) Order in Council, 1934 British Protected Persons Order, 1934 60 Date of S Commencement. 331 17 November, 1933 333 9 October, 1933 335 1 April, 1934 336 1 April, 1934 338 14 May, 1934 Remarks. Repeals and re- places section 10 of 4 and 5 Geo. 5c. 17. Revokes and re- places article 10 of the Foreign Marriages Orders in Council, 1913 and 1925. Amends West African Court of Appeal Order in Council, 1928. No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 1 of 1934. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this tenth day of April, 1934. C. E. COOKSON, Governol 's Deputy. An Ordinance to Amend the Customs Tariff Ordinance No. 1 of Ordinance, 1932. 19l. [I0Oth April, 1934.] Date of com- mencemen t. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Concil thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Customs Tariff Short title (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934, and shall come into operation on and com- the tenth day of April, 1934. mencement. RepeaLt of 2. Section 4 of the Customs Tariff Ordinance, 1932 (herein- ;ectioI 4 of after called the Principal Ordinance), is hereby repealed. No. lof 1932. Repeal of 3. Section 5 (1) (c) of the Principal Ordinance is herebysection 5 (1(c of Principal repealed. Ordinance. Amendment 4. Section 13 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 13 by the deletion of the letters "sclion" il the last line of Principal and the substitution therefore of the word "section." Ordinance. 5. Section 15 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by the deletion of the word "third" in the third line f section 15 and the s tittion therefore of th word "con.rincipal and the substitution therefore of the word "second." Ordinance. L_ 2 No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 Amendment 6. Section 16 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 16 in te following respects- of Principal Ordinance. (a) by the deletion from the second line of sub-section (1) (a) of the words "first, second and third" and the substitution therefore of the words first and second ", and (b) by the deletion from the marginal note of the figures and word 1, 2 and 3 and the substitution therefore of the figures and word 1 and 2." Amendment 7. Section 17 (3) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of section 17 3) of amended by the deletion of the word fourth in the third line principal and the substitution therefore of the word third." Ordinance. Repeal and replacement 8. The first schedule to the I'rincipal Ordinance is hereby of first sche- dule to Princi- repealed and replaced by the schedule to this Ordinance. pal Ordinance. Repeal of second 9. The second schedule to the Principal Ordinance is schedule to hereby repealed. Principal Ordinance. Renumera- 10. The third schedule to the Principal Ordinance is hereby tion and renumbered the second schedule, and is further amended by amendment of third substituting 0 10s. td." for 1 10s. 0d." as the duty schedule to for palm kernels. Principal Ordinance. Renumera- 11. The fourth schedule to the Principal Ordinance is hereby tion of renumbered the third schedule. fourth schedule to Principal Ordinance. 0o, C ft O^GCustoms Tariff (Amendment). 3 THE FIRST SCHEDULE. Sitish SGoods Unit. refer- General 't~o < ential Tariff S/ Tariff. / s. d. s. d. 1 Air craft and accessories ... ... -- aree percent. ad valorem 2 All goods imported in special / circumstances for objects of a / general public character, or for / an enterprise deemed to be / beneficial to the Colony or I Protectorate, with the approval / of the Governor in Council but subject to such terms and cond tions, if any, as he may thi fit to impose. Free Free 3 All goods imported by: (a) The Inspector-Geneal of the Royal West frican Frontier Force .And his staff officers br their private use whetp on inspec- tion duty within the Colony or the ProteCorate. Free Free (b) Boundary an other Special Commissiorrs and their assistants,_ and officers specially/ appointed for service gnerally in British West frica whose duties require them to travel between the various British Wes' African possessions, for heir private use when onjduty within the Colony or Protectorate. r S- Free Free 4 All goos imported for the sole use of auy mess or officer or member of Ahe crew of any ships of HiJ Majesty's Navy on the Cast of Africa, upon proof ing made to the satisfaction f the Comptroller of Customs that the same are bona fide imported for the sole use of any such mess. officer or member. ee Free F ree JFree All goods officially imported by, or for the use of: (a) His Majesty's troops. Free Free (b) His Majesty's ships, or for any officer or member of the crew serving on one of His Majesty's ships. Free Free (c) The Colonial Government. Free Free 4 No. 1 Item No. Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 Goods. 6 All goods imported by officers of any body of Boy Scouts or Girl Guides recognized by the Colonial Government, which are required solely for the use of such scouts, guides or their officers. 7 All goods imported for the official use of any foreign Consulate, and the luggage and personal effects of the Consular represent tative of any foreign country, or his family, or suite, if such Consular representative is not engaged in any other business or profession in the Colony or Protectorate, provided that a similar privilege is accorded by such foreign country to the British Consulate therein. 8 All non-consumable goods such furniture, plate, glass or cutler and any other goods whatsoe r approved by the Governor in Council, when such non-on sumable goods or such her goods are imported for thb sole use of any mess or cant en, or garrison or regimental institute, belonging to officers or warrant officers, sergeants or rnk and file of His Majesty's jrmy, or the Sierra Leone Ba alion of the Royal West Africa4 Frontier Force, and when it ls certified by the officer comnianding the corps having sucli mess or canteen, or garrison or regimen- tal institute, thatAhe same are imported solely for the use of any such mess or canteen, or garrison or regimental institute, and that they r any of them shall not be solL or applied for any purpose save as herein- before mentioi(ed. 9 All materials ;imported for the purpose of scientific research in the Sir Alffed Jones' Tropical Laboratory., 10 All perishab provisions imported on ice or in refrigerating chambers. 11 Animals atd birds, living K' /' - Free Frce Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free __~ No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 5 British Item PGoo. refer- general No. Goods. Ui. ential ariff. Tariff. s. d 12 Apparel: (a) Cardigans, jerseys and pull- overs ... ... ... Each 0 6 0 1 6 o per or 60 per ,at. ad cent, ad alorent calorem ichever whichever is the is the higher higher (b) Shirts ... ... .. 0 0 6 0 1 6 or 20 per or 60 per cent. ad cent, ad valorem valorent whichever whichever is the is the higher higher (c) Singlets ... ...... 0 0 2 0 0 6 or 211 per or 60 per cent. ad cent. ad S valorem valorem whichever whichever is the is the higher higher 13 Appliances, apparatus and ma- terials (excluding tools and implements) not being subject to a specific import duty, prov to the satisfaction of Comptroller of Customs to e imported exclusively for us in any process for the separ ion of metals from ores, soil or their natural matter with the Colony or Protectorate. Free 10 per cent. ad valorem 14 Arms, ammunition and e losives: (a) Arms: Swords, bayonets nd similar weapons ... ... ... Each 0 6 3 0 12 6 (b) Firearms: (i) Rifles ad guns, other than rcussion, air and fl't-lock ... ... 2 0 0 4 0 0 (ii) Perc sion and air guns ... ... ..1 0 0 2 0 0 (iii) Re vers and pistols 1 0 0 2 0 0 (iv) Fli -lock guns ...0 3 0 0 6 0 (c) Amm ition: (i) artridges, loaded a. For rifle, revolver or pistol .. ... 100 0 10 0 1 0 0 b. Other ... ... 0 5 0 0 10 0 ( Cartridges, unloaded 0 1 2 0 2 4 ( ) Percussion caps ... 0 1 0 0 2 0 v) Shot, slugs and pellets Lb. 0 0 6 0 1 0 (d) Explosives :. (i) Dynamite and cognate substances .. ... 0 0 2 0 0 4 (ii) Gunpowder ... ... 0 0 6 0 1 0 (iii) Fireworks .. ... 0 1 0 0 2 0 stormss Tariff (ende) Customs Tariff (Amendment). Goods. Item No. 15 1:6 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 20 Bags: (a) For use in coaling vessels (b) For use ink the exportation of West African produce Beads, other thin real coral ... Beer and ale. stout and porter containing ;not more than 10 per century by weight of pure alcohol ... Bicycles ...... ... Biscuits id tins ... Blades, safety razor Blue .. ... ... Books, stationery and apparatus generally for the use of educa- tionl establishments, chemicals required for tuition purposes, and goods required for outdoor gan s, when certified by the hea of the establishment that sucoi goods are intended exclu- siv ly for the use of such establishment, and admitted as suh by the Comptroller of Customs, British Unit. Prefer- General enitial Tariff Tariff. Arms, accoutrements, equipment and uniform, the property of officers of His Majesty's Army or Navy, the Royal West African) Frontier Force, or the Civi' Service, or of any Colonia Force oF constabulary, volup- teers, or police, imported Sy such officers for their persj al use as required by the reg'la- tions of their respective ser ces. The professional robes all officers of the Colonial Srvice who are barristers-at-llw or advocates of the Scotti Bar. Artificial limbs ... Artificial poppies for/ sale on Armistice Day. Asphalt: (a) Pitch (b) Tar ... ... . 8. ''ree Free Free S. d. Free 10 per ceut. ad ialorein 10 per cent. ad calorem 0 0 0 0 0oi 0 0 11 0 0 3 0 0 6 006 0 3 6 0 o 5 0 1 0 0 7 0 0 0 10 Free 10 per cent. ad valorem, No. 1 Lb. Imp. gall. Each 100 lb net Lh. Imp gall. Each 100 11). Each 100 lb __ 1934 Customs Tariff (Amendment). Goods. Boots, shoes and slippers: a) Boots and shoes, leather including rubber wellington ... Item No. 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34 35/ 39 shoes other than (c) Slippers ... .. Bread, otherwise know as trade 'biscuits (not tinned) .. ... Bullion ... Buoys, chains, anchors and sinkers for mooring ve els. Butter and but r substitutes: (a) Butter ... (b) Butter substitutes-West Afric ... ... (c) Other utter substitutes in- clud g oleomargarine .. Candles, including night lights and t ers ... . Carries carts and wagons: ( otor-vehicles, including accessories, tools and im- Splements (but not spare parts) imported with such vehicles and included in the purchase price of the same. (b6) Trailers to be used in connection with a motor- vehicle. Cement ...... Cheese ...... Chemicals: (a) Calcium carbide ... (b) Dyes and dyestuffs (c) West African Indigo 100 lb. 100 lb. 100 lb. 020 0 2 0 or 20 per cent. ad i'loreitl whichever is the higher 0 0 6 or 20 per cent, ad calorein whichever is the higher S0 4 or 20 per cent. aid valoremt whichever is the higher 021 Free Free 0 10 0 400 lb, gross 0 1 1 100 lb. Lb. 0 12 6 No. 1 /1934 -I- (b) Boots and leather s. d. 0 4 0 040 or 40 per cent ad valorem whichever is the higher 0 1 6 or 60 per cent. ad valorem whichever is the higher 0 1 0 or 60 per cent. ad calorem whichever is the higher 0 4 2 Free 10 per cent. ad calorem 1 5 0 068 0 6 8 0 12 6 10 0 20 per cent. ad ralo emi 20 per cent. ad valoremt 0 30 1 5 0 Customs Tariff (Amendment). Item Goods. No. Goods. 37 Chinaware, earthenware and pottery: Clay pipes 38 British Unit. /Prefer- eutial Tariff, s,: d. | ~ Gross IMfp. gall. 100 ft. 0 0 Free 01 6 ) 1 0 General - Tariff. s. d. 0 0 6 Free 0 3 U S2 0 Church furniture, ornaments and equipment. Cider and perry, containing not more than 10 per centum by weight of pure alcohol Note.-Any such liquor containing more than 10 per centum bg, weight of pure alcohol shall be charged duty as spirits. When cider or perry is imported , twelve bottles of the size kno'n as reputed quarts, or twe ,ty- four bottles of the size k own as reputed pints, shall be seemed to contain two imperial gllons. Cinematograph films .. / Clocks and watches ... Clothing imported1 immediately before embarkatign, which the Comptroller of customss is satis- fied is intended for the importer's peronal use on a voyage to a place outside the tropics. Coal, coke axfd patent fuel Coffee: (a) Raw ... (b) Ot Mixtures f Empire and foreign coffee ill be charged on the percent age of each at the appro riate rates. Coins which are legal tender, and banl and currency notes. Free Free Free 10 per cent. ad Id aiurenl I 0 O0i 0 0 14 0 3 0 0 6 Free Free - . No. 1 1934 z 15 per cent. 30 per cent. id valoren ad valorel Customs Tariff (Amendment). Goods. Cooper's stores, including casks, shooks, staves and heading hoops, rivets, rushes, tenter- hooks and chalk, specially imported for the packing of West African produce. Coral, real ... . Cordage and twine: (a) Cordage ... ... (b) Twine... . Corkwood .... Cotton manufactures: (a) Piece goods (including scarves). (i) Bleached Admitted (ii) Coloured Aditted s (iii) Dyed ... uch b e iv) Grey ... Comptr er (v) Printed of toms (b) Madras handkerch (c) Imitation Madray hand- kerchief ... ... (d) Sewing ... ... (e) Yarn ... (f) Fents / (g) Blankets ..... Cups, medals, s elds and other trophies provpl to the satisfac- tion of thb Comptroller of Customs to j'e specially imported as prizes or competitions in racing, cacket, football, tennis, golf, shloting or any other form of ,port or athletics, or at hortic ltural or agricultural exhibitions, or at musical festivals or contests. Provided that/ no advertisement shall be ins ribed on or attached to any suvh article, and that this elfemption shall not be extended such goods when imported /or purposes of trade. urrants, dried SCutlery ... .. Dressings certified to be imported for free distribution by mis- sionary societies. Filters and parts thereof and all appliances for the filtration of water. British Unit. Prefer- ential Tariff s. . / _- /Free Oz. 10k1 . / Sq. yd. Lb. I 0 24 0 8 ( 0 15 Free 0 0 1 ) 0 o A 0 0 11 0 0 l 0 0 2 0 0 1 0 10 0( 0 3 0 0 (; 15 per cent. ad valorem I- Free Cwt. Free 15 per cent. adl ralorei |Free 10 per cent. Free ad valoremr No. 1 Item No. 1934 / Genii Titiff T. d. 10 per cent. ad valoreni 005 0 16 0 1 10 0 10 per cent. ad valorem 0 0 2 003 0 0 3 0 0 1I 0 0 24. 004 0 0 3 0 1 0 0 0 6 010 30 per cent. ad valorem Free 020 0 2 0 30 per cent. ad valorem Free 10 No. 1 Item No. 56 57 58 59 60 61 62 63 Customs Tariff (Amendment). S P o1 / 1 Goods. ITiit. ' i' Fire engines and fire-extinguish- ing implements and appliances, including accessories and spare parts, and uniforms, imported by the City Council of Freetown for the use of the Freetown Fire Brigade. Firearms, ammunition and shoot- ing equipment imported with the sanction of the Governor b the Secretary of any rifle clui the constitution and objects Pf which have been approved by the Governor. / Firearms for sporting purposes re-imported, provided tha : (i) they have beet pre- viously license ; (ii) all duties ha e been paid thereon and (iii) they have re gained in the possession of the person re-i portilng 1the same sinceisuch licens- ing and payment of duties. / Fish: / (a) Canned or otherwisee pre- served in hbttles or jars ... (b) Caught by ind prepared for food upo a trawler opera- ting from the Colony or Protecto(ate; but not fish which i tinned or bottled or which has been pre- pared or food in any other way. (c) Drie salted, smoked or pic ed, not in tins, jars or bottles (d) Fr h, not preserved in a y way. Fishing ets and gear ... Fruits (a) Dried other than candied or crystallised ... (b Fresh, not preserved in any Sway. Gla bottles, lamp chimneys and t ble glassware. Go ds exported for alteration or repair. Provided that they are e-imported within one year of exportation and the prescribed editions have been fulfilled. / K r1 100 lb. 100 lb. 100 lb. 1934 ritish 'refer- iitial I'ariff. Free Free VFTiee Free 0 2 6 Free Free 0 4 2 Free 15 per cent. 'Ed i'11ereem General Tariff .< d. 10 per cent tld I'llor'emn. 10 per cent, (td teelurewn 10 per cent. [ll] t'iltloeet ( 10 U Free 0 5 0 050 Free 10 per vent. 0 8 4 084 Free :0 per cent. ad ,tlloreml Customs Tariff (Amendment). Goods. Item No. 64 i65 66 67 68 69 70 71 72 73 Unit. 100 lb Grain and flour, pulse and pre- parations thereof: (a) Grain : (i) Rice (ii) Other kinds (b) Flour and meal: (i) Flour ... (ii) Other kinds (c) Pulse: (i) Beans, peas and barley (ii) Other kinds (d) Other farinaceous prepara- tions, including macaroni, vermicelli, arrowroot, corn- flour, tapioca and sago ... Grease Ground-nuts, decorticated and undecorticated Hackles or combs for the dressing of piassava fibre. Hosiery : (a) Cotton ... ... ... (b) Artificial silk ... ... / (c) Silk ... .. / (d) Woollen ... Ice Ice che s and refrigerators, and par thereof. Impl tents and tools: SAgricultural, except mat- chets and cutlasses (b) Soldering infants' foods, admitted as such by the Comptroller of Customs. Instruments and appliances for: (a) Scientific purposes and research. (b) Surveying and prospecting. (c) The professional use of surgeons, oculists and dentists. 0 4 2 0 8 4 Free Free 0 0 2 or 20 per cent. ad calorem whichever is the higher 003 or 20 per cent. ad ialoremi whichever is the higher S0 6 or 20 per cent. ad CtlVlOrc' i whichever is the hihiier 0 0 3 or 20 per cent. ad caloret, e whichever is the higher Free Free Free Free Free Free Free Free / /ir Pair No. 1 1934 11 -f 084 0 16 8 0 0 1 10 per cent. ad valoreim 0 0 6 or i0 per cent, ad trloremt whichever is the higher 0 0 9 009 or 60 per cent. ad valoremt whichever is the higher 0 1 6 016 or 60 per cent. ad valorem whichever is the higher 0 0 6 or 40 per cent. ad calorelnl whichever is the higher Free 10 per cent. ad, valorem 10 p r cent. ad valoren 10 per cent. ad valorei 10 per cent. ad raloremr Free Free British: ' Prefren- General tial Tariff / Tariff. s. d. a. 0 1 9 3 6 0 1 YO 0 2 6 0 / 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 4 2 2 1 0 4 2 Customs Tariff (Anmendmlent). Goods. Jams, jellies and preserved fruits: (a) Canned and bottled, ex- BitisV Unit. Prefen- General Unilt. ti#._ Tariff Tariff Ss. d. s. d. ^' 0 1; 3 0 12 6 0 8 4 0 16 8 15 per cent. ad rulnorein 0 8 4 0 18 8 0 18 8 30 per cent ad valorent 0 16 8 1 17 4 cluding candied and crys- I tallised fruits ... ... 100 lb. J (b) Other kinds, including can- died and crystallised fruits Lamps and lanterns ... ... Lard and lard substitutes ... ) h. Lime ... ... ... Ton Machinery: (a) Agricultural ... ... (b) Electric lighting and power for industrial purposes w (c) Marine ... ... ... (d) Mining and gold dredging (e) Other industrial and anu- facturing ... ... (f) Railway and Tran'ay ... (g) Sewing machine ... ... Each (h) Typewriters f ... ... ,, (i) Water boring and pumping (j) For use iniconnection with the prepa nation of, or pros- pecting or, any natural product of West Africa, or the d elopment of any indust' in connection with such product. (k) Accesories, appliances and pla r, which the Comp- tro er of Customs is sa sfied are for use exclu- si fely in connection with a y machinery detailed above . Note.--The term Machinery " mea s machines consisting of a comn nation of moving parts and nme fhanital eleven ts which may be jput in motion by physical or . ml chanical force, admitted as s1ch by the Comptroller of Customs. No. 1 Item No. /1934 -- Free 10 per cent. ad valoremn Free 10 pe- cent. ad valorent Free l per cent. ad raloremn Free 10 per (ent. ad galore, Free 10 per cent. ad valouem Free 10 per cent !ad valorem 0 15 0 1 10 0 1 5 0 2 10 0 Free 10 per cent. a i aloremn Free t0 per cent. ad valorem Free 10 per cent. ad ralorem Customs Turiy/ (Amendmenf). Item No. 79 80 81 Goods. Manures of all kinds; insecticides, fungicides, vermin-killers and disinfectants; and all other substances which the Comp- troller of Customs is satisfied are imported exclusively for use as manures, or as remedies for diseases of, or preventive of insect attacks on, plants and animals. Matches in boxes containing 80 matches or less. (Matches in boxes containing a greater quantity than 80 matches each to be charged in proportion) ... Matchets and cutlasses ... 82 Meat : (a) Canned or bottled ... (b) Fresh, including game a poultry. (c) Pickled or salted, not canned or bottled ... (d) Smoked or cure not canned or bottled (e) Other, including extracts 83 Medicines and drugs excluding quinine. 84 Memorial tablets, memorial win- dows and tomb ones, together with the nece ary accessories. 85 Metals: (a) Corrug d iron sheets ... (b) Lead any form except shots slugs and pellets ... 86 Milk, co ensed or otherwise 87 M ilk, fr h ... ... ... ... 88 Mosqui netting, including mos- quit, nets, made up of mesh not larger than 12 by 12 to the sq re inch; and mosquito proof g. ze, made up of mesh not I rger than 18 by 18 to the uare inch. 89 newspapers, old ...... 90 IOil: (a) Fuel (b) Illuminating (c) Lubricating ... (d) Motor spirit ... (e) Edible ... ... Onions and garlic ... ... *1 British Unit. Prefer- ential Tariff. s. d. I -/ / j/ Free Gtss of boxes 0 1 6 - 15 per cent. ad valouenat 100 lb. 100 lb. Ton 36 lb. Cwt. Imp. gall. Lb. Lb. 0 8 4 General -* Tariff// / d. 10 per cent ad valorem 0 3 0 O0 per cent ad valorem 0 16 8 Free 046 1 5 0 1 13 4 10 percent 20 per cent. ad valor- m ad valorem Free Free 4 0 0 8 0 0 7 10 0 15 0 0 Free 0 4 0 Free Free Free o ner cent No. 1 1934 /' V V _r 010 0 0 0 5 0 Q 9 0 1 0 0 0 9 0 0 8 005 0(19 010 009 008 0 0 0O 14 No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 Britisl Item G U Pref en- General No. Goorif Tariff. iift'. s. d. a 4. 92 Outer packing in which goods are packed and imported, such as .I packing cases, crates, or other f covers, and such immediate or inner packing as may, in the opinion of the Comptroller of Customs, be of no commercial value. Free Free 93 Packages, other than bags and f sacks, ordinarily imported for / the packing and transport of West African produce. Free Free 94 Painters' colours and materials: (a) Paints and colours .... ... 100 1. 0 5 0 0 10 0 (b) Paint oil, polishes and var-f nishes .. Imp. gall. 0 0 9 0 1 6 (c) Turpentine and turpenti e substitutes ... 0 9 0 1 6 95 Palm kernels, palm oil, kola ot- piassava fibre and nndressedAlides and skins ... ... .. ... Free Free 96 Passengers' baggage, being Avearing apparel, articles of personal adorn- ment, toilet requisites/ and any portable articles imported in a passenger's baggage.for on his person, whicli he nmiigt reasonably be expected to carrf with him for his own regular anid private use, and which are passed as such by the Comptroller/of Customs, and in which may Ve included spirits or perfumery fAot exceeding one reputed quavt of each, cigars or cigarettes. not exceeding one hundred of Jach, or any tobacco not exceeding one pound in weight ... .... ... .. ... Free Free 97 Patterns, mples and advertising material of no commercial value admitted as such by the Comptrol- ler of customs ... ... ... Free Free 98 Persona effects when satisfactory evid ice is given that they are beiru re-imported after a previous iml ration ... ... ... ... Free Free 99 Pers nal effects, landed in the C lony or Protectorate within one Ionth before or after the passen- er's arrival, shall be regarded :is ccomlnpaning the passenger. Pro- vided that if such effects be delayed after shipment by circun- stances beyond the control of the importer, the Comptroller of /Customs may, in his discretion, extend the period ... ... .. Free Free Customs Tariff (Amendment). Item No. 100 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 2 British SPrefer- General Unit. ential Tariff Tariff. E s. i. s. d. Goods. Personal effects, not being iiw ,is or merchandise, of natives oF the Colony or Protectorate i1 log in places outside the limit of the jurisdiction ... Plate glass Playing cards ... ... ... ... Potatoes (including sweet potatoes and yams) . Printing machines and all appliances (except printing paper) used in the process of printing, and printing ink .. ... ... Printed literary matter, including maps, charts, plans, scientific and technical works in all languages., code books lanedprinted u'sice all trade catalogues and price lists Quinine ... ... .. .. i- Rubber tyres for vehicles, iVeluding inner tubes ... ... ... Salt : / (a) Table ... .. (b) Other kinds ... ... ... Seeds, plants. Iflbs, roots, shrubs and trees, imported for agricul- tural or horticultural purposes Silk and artificial silk : (t) Sifc, artificial, piece goods. eludingg scarves (b/Silk, artificial, fents ... ... e) Silk, natural, piece goods ... S (a) Toilet ... (b) Other kinds ... ... Specimens of natural history, min- eralogy or botany ... ... ... (I O 1) I0 0 0 lFh ee Free Lb. 0 0 4 100 lh. 0 1 8 (wt. 0 1 9 S Free Sq. yd. 0 0 2 Lb). 0 0 6 0 1 6 100 lb. 0 12 6 Cwt. 0 7 6 Free 10 per cent. iad valorem Free Free I) I) g 1 5 0 0 15 0 Free Ne. 1 1934 15 / Pack not exceeding 53 cards (U .JI i Customs Tariff (Amendment). Item No. Goods. Spirits : (a) Potalde : (i) Brandy, gin, ruin, whisky and other spirits or strong waters the true degree or strength of which can be innmedi- ately ascertained by Tralles alcoholometer, of the strength of 50 degrees per centum of pure alcohol by such alcoholo- meter If of greater strength for every degree over 50 de- grees per centum by such alcoholometer ... If of less strength, fo/ every degree be I.... ' strength of 50 I..., . per centum by such lico- holometer, a reduction of duty of ... .. .. Provided always that the duty shall in nYccase be less than ... ... (ii) Spirits being/sweetened or mixed s6 that the degree of strength cannot be ascertajied as afore- said /... ... (b) Not potable, (i) Methy ted, when the Comptroller of Customs is s: sfied that the spirit is intended solely for industrial purposes and i "not intended for sale ... (ii) ethylated, other ... (iii Perfumed toilet prepara- Stions, washes and denti- I frices ... ... /(iv) Other ... ... .. No' ls.--Spirituous drugs and medi- cin preparations containing not m e than 20 per centuni by weight o pure alcohol, to be charged at e prescribed ad ralorem rate. pirituous drugs and medicinal pre- parations containing more than 20 per centum by weight of pure ( alcohol to be charged at the rate of... British Prefer General ential Tariff Tariff. ."8. d. s. d. Unit. Imp. gall. .I 0 0 4 1 10 10 1 13 6 0 1 0 1 4 10 1 13 6 0 1 0 113 6 1 16 0 0 0 8 004 1 12 8 116 0 0 2 0 1 6 0 1 16 0 0 2 0 1 16 0 113 6 0 0 8 _ _ 1934 Nd. 1 No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 British Item Prefer- Gene No Goods. Unit. ential T Tariff. s. d. s. t Anyj liquor containing not more than two per ceontum Ib weight of pure alcohol shall be deemed to be on1- ulcohlirc, ViWhen spirits are imported in cases of ' twelre bottles of the siqe ,known as C reputed quarts, or tvenity-four bottles of the size kuiov"n as reputed pints, each case shall be deemed to contain i two imperial galblous. 114 Starch ... ... ... ... ... l l 0 3 4 0 6 8 115 Sugar:-- (a) Grown and manufactured in the British Empire ... 7 Lb. 0 0 Of - (b) Grown in foreign countries but manufactured in theft British Empire ... ,, 0 01 - (c) Grown and/or manuf tured in foreign count s ,, 0 0 1 116 Tea ...... ... .. ... 0 4 0 0 8 117 Telegraph materials. All Jonna fide telegraph materials iniy r.r..I for the use of the Easterly Telegraph Company. Limited ... Free Free Tobacco:- 118 (i) Unmanufactud ... ... Lb. 0 1 2 0 1 6 (ii) Manufactur : (a) Cigars ... ... ... 0 6 6 0 8 8 (b) Cigare es: 1. N exceeding a ight of 41 ozs. per 00. (1) Manufactured in f the British Em- pire from Empire S grown tobacco ... Per 100 0 1 6 S (2) Manufactured in S the British Em- / pire from foreign tobacco ... ... 0 2 0 (3) Manufactured in / foreign countries 9 2 6 Provided that with respect to cigarettes manufactured in the British Empire which contain a blend of Empire and foreign tobacco, the duty thereon shall be at a rate proportioned to the percentage of each tobacco, the ( percentage of Empire and foreign grown tobacco being charged respectively at the rates under (1) and (2). '4-7 d. 18 No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). Goods. 2. Exceeding a weight of 41 ozs. per 100. (1) Manufactured in the British Em- pire from Empire grown tobacco (2) Manufactured in the British Em- pire from foreign tobacco ... .. (3) Manufactured in f foreign countrieV (ii) (c) Snuff ... ... (ii) (d) Other manufactured bacco: (1) Manufactured in the British AEm- pire from E pire grown tobao (2) Manufactur in the Britii Em- pire front foreign tobacco (3) Manufaqured in foreign countries Provided that with respect to tobacco manufactured in the British Empire ich contains a blend of Empje and foreign tobacco, the du# thereon shall be at a rate iroportioned to the percentage xof each tobacco, the percentage~ of Empire and foreign groti tobacco being charged iesp tively at the rates under (1) a d (2). Umbrellas andriarsols ... Vegetables:) (a) Dric canned or preserved ... (b) Fresj. excluding sweet pota- toe, potatoes, onions, garlic an yams Vessels, including lighters, boats, canoe, and steam ;and other launches, with their necessary ftitts and tackle such as masts, oars, sails, anchors and chains. Mat rials for use in the construc- tiot of all such vessels when ad itted as such by the Comp- tro er of Customs. Vin ar ..... ... Wat r tanks and vats and ready made spare parts Item No. 1934 j3ritish Prefer- enitial Tariff. s. d. 0 6 0 0 8 0 0- 0 0 5 0 0 4 0 0 5 0 0 0 0 8 0 General Tariff. . (d. 10 0 6 0 6 0 2 0 Unit. / Lb. A Each 100 lb. ,Imp, gall. 2 1 0 4 2 Free l pei cent,. ic rulorem 0 0 8 ll0 per cent. ad ralorem Free 0 0 I -- ---- ; --~- I No. 1 Customs Tariff (Amendment). 1934 Britij Item Goods. Unit. Prefen- General No. G sn Tariff. 'J ,nriff. 124 125 126 127 128 r Imp. i.ilL r f , s. d. 0 5 0 0 5 0 0n 0 1,000sup. ft. 0 15 01 Wines:- (a) Sparkling (b) Still Note.-Any such liquor containing more than 20 per centum bH/ eight of pure alcohol shall be charged duty as spirits. Wood and timber, unmanutactured: Lumber ... ... ... Works of art, drawings, engraving#,l photographs. also philosophical ad scientific apparatus and appliances brought by professional perons for their personal use and ndft for sale or exchange . All edibles, groceries, provisions. condiments and othri articles ordinarily used as food'for human consumption, not otherwise men- tioned in the sched:ie. . All goods, war..:n'il.I merchandise not included i..a',\ other item in this schedule. ..... Note.-In case ~if specific duties, the rates of duty shall be charged upon any greater;or less quantity of such goods proportionately. Bottles erqitaining wines, spirits and oil., 6 ., .r ." not measu red on ,,i...,', ..*. ,*..'.i be taken to contain as fWlows : ( Imperial quarts-a quarter of / a gallon. S Imperial pints--an eighth of S a gallon. Reputed quarts-a sixth of a gallon. Reputed pints- a twelfth of a gallon. When battles are measured on importation, nieaiureinents shall be taken to the *01 of a gallon, and duity charged accordingly. Free s. d. 0 10 0 0 6 0 060 110 0 Free 10 per cent.. 20 per cent 7d rclorem ad valoreo 30 per cent. 40 per cent. td valorent ad valoremn 20 No. 1 Customs Tariff ('ni ,,,'li(,,t. 1934 / Passed in the Legislative Connicdl .ftl ninth day of April, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine Lnn.li ,.l and thirty-four. SJ. L. JOHN, Clerk of' Legislative iCuncil. THIS PRINTED IMP ON has Iben carefully compared by me with the Bill which has p sj the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct co y af the said Bill. "/ J. L. JOHN, Clerk oif Legislative Council. M.P. U.F. 18134. Importation of Tc.rtiles (Quota.,). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONI'. No. 2 of 1934. In His M;ilajesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixteenth day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. An Ordinance to Provide for the Imposition of Quotas on Imports of Textiles from Foreign Countries. [16th June, 1934.] Dateofcom- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by th, Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the _.oL o0 xtilll hort 3t (Quotas) Ordinance, 1934 ~cJ i a r-x "1 or . 2. In this Ordinance unless the context otherwise requires:- Interpreta- "quota" means the quantity of textile goods or any tion. class or classes of textile goods imaitufactnred in any individual foreign country which may be imported during any period in accordance with a proclamation made by the Governor under section 3 ; quota period lmans any period in respect of which any quota has been fixed by the Governor under the said section; No.1o.f foreign country means any country or territory not of 1 3a. being a part of the British Empire as defined in section 2 of the Customs Tariff Ordinance, 1932 ; No. 2 1934 21 22 No. 2 Importation of Textiles (Quotas). 1934 regulated textiles means any textile goods, and any class or classes of textile goods manufactured in a V, foreign country, in respect of which any quota has 02 7 been fie vernor nder section 3; the Comptrotlhr means the Comptroller of Customs. Fixing of 3. (L) The Governor may fix by proclamation the total quotas. quantity of textile goods or of any class or classes of textile goods manufactured in any foreign country which may be imported during any period. (2) The quota period specified in any proclamation made in accordance with sub-section (1) may commence prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance: and any imports of regulated textiles between the commencement of the period and the coming into operation of the Ordinance may be taken into account for the purposes of section 5. Provided that no importation made prior to the coming into operation of this Ordinance shall constitute an offence under section 11. Returns ard 4. No person shall import any regulated textiles unless he declarations shall, at the time of importation submit to the Comptroller in the of origin, prescribed form a return of the quantity, class, and origin of the goods imported and a declaration of origin. Provided that, during a period of three months after the coming into operation of this Ordinance, imports of regulated textiles may, at the discretion of the Comptroller, and subject to such conditions as he may impose either generally or in any particular case as to the subsequent submission of evidence of origin, be admitted without the submission of such a declaration of origin. Records of 5. (1) The imports of regulated textiles manufactured in importsand any foreign country shall be separately recorded by the publication Comptroller. thereof. (2) Any person may at any time on payment of the prescribed fee, require the Comptroller to furnish a statement of the total quantity already imported or licensed for import of any regulated textiles manufactured in any individual foreign country during any quota period and the Comptroller shall furnish such statement accordingly. (3) When the imports of any regulated textiles manufac- tured in any foreign country during any quota period attain the quota prescribed in respect of such textiles for such country in that period, the Governor shall issue a notice to that effect in the Gazette; and such notice shall specify the foreign country, the regulated textiles and the quota period to which it refers. Importation of Textiles (Quotas). 6. Upon the issue of a notice under sub-section (3) of the Prohibition preceding section further impot is of the regulated textiles of importsin excess of concerned manufactured in the country specified therein shall be quota. prohibited until the end of the quota period. Provided that notwiithstanding anything in this Ordinance. the Governor may if he thinks fit, in any proclamation issued under this Ordinance, direct that regulated textiles in excess of the several quotas therein fixed may be imported on payment of such duties in addition to those prescribed by the Customs Tariff Ordinance, 1932, or any other Ordinance, as may be specified in the proclamation, and accordingly this Ordinance shall have effect subject to such direction. 7. (1) No person shall import any regulated textiles Issue of otherwise than in accordance with a direction given under the illl'ort proviso to section G, except under licence issued by the licences. Comptroller. (2) Every licence issued under this section shall state the quantity, class, and country of manufacture of textile goods which may be imnported under it and the period during which the licence is valid. (3) Applications for licences to import any regulated textiles shall he made to the Comptroller and shall state full particulars of the quantity, class, and country of manufacture of the goods proposed to be imported under it. (4) The period during which any import licence is valid shall fall wholly within a single quota period. (5) The total quantity of imports of any regulated textiles, manufactured in any country, during any quota period which may be authorized by import licences issued under this section shall not exceed the quota for that country fixed for that quota period. (6) On the importation of any regulated textiles the appropriate import licence shall be endorsed in the prescribed manner, and when the total quantity of goods the importation of which is thereby authorized has been imported, the licence shall be surrendered to the Comptroller and cancelled. (7) On the issue of an import licence a fee to be prescribed shall be paid by the person to whom the licence is issued. 8. (1) If it appears to the Comptroller that, in respect Restriction of any particular foreign country and any quota period the of import quantity of any regulated textiles in respect of which import licence:. licences are likely to be applied for will exceed the appropriate quota for that country and quota period, he may cause a notice to be published in the Gazette to the effect that the issue of import licences for the import of such goods will be restricted. 1934 23 No. 2 Importation of Textiles (Quotas). (2) Any notice issued under sub-section (1) shall specify the regulated textiles, the quota period and the foreign country to which it relates and shall further specify a period within which applications for import licenses for such imports may be submitted. (3) On the expiry of the period within which applica- tions may be submitted, the Comptroller shall consider all the applications received and, if the total quantity of goods covered by such applications does not exceed the appropriate quota, he may issue import licences in accordance with all applications. If the total quantity of goods covered by the applications exceeds the appropriate quota the Comptroller shall in his discretion, subject to the approval of the Governor, issue licences (hereinafter called restricted import licences ") to the several applicants for quantities propor- tionate to the volume of their previous importations or to the quantities specified in their application or on any other basis. (4) A restricted import licence issued at the time of the initial issue of such licences of the same class shall be valid until a date not less than three months before the end of the quota period to which it relates and shall lapse if and so far as it is not used by that date. If, at that date, the total imports of the regulated textiles concerned is less than the appropriate quota, the Comptroller may by notice in the Gazette invite further applications for import licences for the remainder of the quota period and a similar procedure shall be followed to that followed on the initial issue of restricted import licences. (5) On the issue of a restricted import licence a fee to be prescribed shall be paid by the person to whom the licence is issued. Transfer of 9. An import licence or a restricted import licence may, import with the consent of the Comptroller, be transferred from the licences. person to whom it was issued to any other person designated by the licencee. Date of com- 10. Sections 7, 8 and 9 shall come into operation on a mencement date to be fixed by the Governor by notice in the Gazettc. of sections 7 to 9. f s ad 11. Any person who shall knowingly import any regulated pnlties. textiles contrary to the provisions of section 4, 6 or 7 or shall fail to comply with any conditions imposed by the Comptroller under the proviso to the said section 4 shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pounds or to imprisonment for two years or to both such fine and ilmprisonlment. Rules. 12. The Governor in Council may make rules for giving effect to the provisions of this Ordinance and to fix the fees payable. 1934 24 No. 2 No. 2 Importation of Textiles (Quotas). 1934 25 Passed in the Legislative Council this fifteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. C.F-57-34. Wrless Teeagraphy (A mendment).. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 3 of 1934. In His Majesty's name 1 assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. Cap. 239. An Ordinance to Amend the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1924. Date of corn- [23rd June, 1934.] menceme nt BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Repeal and 2. Section 5 (1) of the Wireless Telegraphy Ordinance, 1924, replacement is hereby repealed and replaced by the following new f ssub-seioen n- (1) of the sub-section -- Teegrahy "5 (1) The Governor in Council may make rules- Ordinance, Or1924. (a) prescribing the form and manner in which applications for licences under this Ordinance are to be made; No..3 1934. IL~s. No. 3 l l'v. Telegryaphy (Awmendment). 1194 '27 (b) prescribing the fees d be paid on the grant of any such licence ; and (c) generally for ca1igiiaIto effect the purposes of this Ordinance." Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of Jane, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a'true nd correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. R31133. 28 No. 4 Arms and Ammunition (Amendment). 1934 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 4 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924. Date of corn- [st January, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Arms and Ammu- and cor- nition (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934, and shall be deemed to mencement. have come into operation on the first day of January, 1934. Amendment 2. The Arms and Ammunition Ordinance, 1924, is hereby of Cap. 11by amended by the insertion of the following new section insertion of new section. immediately after section 29 :- "Approved "29A. Notwithstanding the provisions of this Ordinance rifle clubs to the contrary, no licence to bear or possess a excepted." firearm shall be necessary in the case of any firearm used exclusively by a member of a rifle club approved by the Governor in connection with the target practice of such rifle club." Cap. 11. No. 4 Arms and Ammunition (Amendment). 1934 29 Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. XJ41A4. Eml. 5 , Undesirable Advertisemte'ns. 19S4 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 5 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. Sv J ARNOLD HODSON, Gov'ernior, An Ordinance to prohibit certain kinds of Undesirable Advertisements. / [23rd June, 1934.] BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent /of the Legislaitive Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance trny be cited as the Undesirable Advertise- ments Ordinance, 1934, and shall apply to the Colony and Protectorate. Interpreta- 2. In this Ordinance venereal disease" means syphilis, tion. gonorrhoea, or soft chance. 3. (1) A person shall not by any advertisement or any public notice or announcement treat or offer to treat any person for venereal disease, or lpescribe or offer to prescribe any remedy therefore, or offer to give or give any advice in connexion with the treatment thereof---- L.S. Date of com- mencement. Short title and application. Restriction on advertise- ments, etc. No. 5. Undesirbhle Adv rtlsements. 19314 31' (2) On and after the first da of'July, 1934, a person shall not hold out or recommend to h-a public by any notice or advertisement, or by any written dc paiitid papers or handbills, any pills, capsules, powders, loeenges, titctures, potions, cordials, electuaries, plaisters, ungnL- nts saves, ointments, drops, lotions, oils, spirits, medicated hrbas.aad waters, chemical and official preparations whatsoever, (o be4 lsd or applied externally or internally- (a) as medicines or nyedicaments for the prevention, cure, or relief of uny venereal disease, or (b) as aphrodisiacs. (3) Nothing in this section shall apply to any advertisement, notification, announcement, recommendation, or holding out made or published by the authority or with the sanction of the Director of Medical and Sanitary Services, or to any publication sent only to qualified medical practitioners or to registered druggists. Provided that no such publication as last aforesaid shall be communicated by qualified medical practitioners or registered druggists to any other person. 4. If any person acts in contravention of any of the provisions Penalties. of section 3, he shall be guilty of an offence and liable, on summary conviction, to a fiie not exceeding fifty pounds, or to imprisonment, with or without hard labour, for a period not exceeding six months or to both such fine and imprisonment, provided that a prosecution for any such offence shall not be instituted without the consent of the Attorney-General. Passed'ifn the Legislai Co-mncil this fourteenth day of June, in the Sear of Our Lord one tlousamnT nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk' of Legislative Council. THTS' PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefu4,1' compared by me with* the- Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and fo -nd bTyme to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P: M123134. 32 No. 6 Fangay (Amendment) COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 6 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Fangay Cap. 67. Ordinance, 1924. Date of cor- [23rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fangay (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. The long title of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of long title amended by inserting the words "and Protectorate" im- of Cap. 67. mediately after the word "Colony ". Amendment 3. Section 1 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 1 by the addition at the end thereof of the words and shall apply Ordfinipal to the Colony and Protectorate ". Ordinance. 1934 NY anrtay (A amendment) 4. Section 5 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by deleting the words "against him" in line 4 thereof and of section substituting therefore the words to h1.ve been done by him with Ordinance. any of the intents or purposes mentoited, in the said definition." 5. Section 6 of the Piri ipal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended- of section 6 of Principal (a) by inserting the word "' or a District Commissioner, Ordinance. immediately after the word Magistrate" in the third line thereof ; and (b) by inserting the words "or court messenger" immediately after the word "constable" in the fourth line thereof. 6. Section 7 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby anmelned Amendment by inserting the words "or a court messenger" immediately of section 7 after the word Force in the first line. rdinacipe Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.1P. Ji30r:2. No. 6 1934 No. 7 Crown Lands Conservancy (Anenrident) COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 7 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. Cap. 45. An Ordinance to Amend the Crown Lands Conservancy Ordinance, 1924. Date of com- [23,rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Crown Lands Conservancy (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Repeal and 2. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed replacement and replaced by the following section:- of section 4 of Cap. 45. "Licence 4. The licence to cut wood or fell or remove trees to cut may be granted for any period not exceeding wodd, etc." one year. Such licence shall commence on the day on which it is expressed to commence, and, unless previously forfeited or otherwise determined, shall expire on the date specified therein." 1934 No. 7 Crown Lands Conservancy (Amendment) 3. Section 8 (2) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed Repeal and and replaced by the following sub-section :- replacement of section (2) For a licence to cut wood and fell trees the 8(2)of licensee shall pay as a fee such sum, not being Orinpane. more than one pound or less than two shillings, as the Licensing Authority may think fair and reasonable." Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. A-115-30. 1934 35 36 INo. 8 (1933) Supqplementary Appro'priation. 1 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 8 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. An Ordinance to Legalise certain Payments made in the Year 1933 for the Public Service of the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone in excess of the Appropriations authorized by Law. Date of com- [23rd June, 1934.] iencement. WHEREAS certain expenditure has been incurred for the Public Service of the Colony and Protectorate in the year 1933 in excess of the appropriations authorized for that purpose : AND WHEREAS it is expedient that such expenditure should be sanctioned by law : BE IT THEREFORE ENACTID by th(e Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:-- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the (1933) Supplementary Appropriation Ordinance, 1934. 1934 No. 8 (1933) Supplementary Appryiriation. 1934 37 2. The sums of money set forth in the Schedule having been Sanction for expended for the services therein respectively mentioned beyond expenditure the amount sanctioned a al appropriated by the (1933) Appropria- cess f3 ap- tion Ordinance, 1932, the same are hereby declared to have been propriations duly and necessarily paid, laid out and expended for the Public authorized Service of the Colony and Protectorate in the year 1933, and are y No. 28 of hereby approved, allowed and granted in addition to the1932 amount mentioned in the Ordinance aforesaid. SCHEDULE. Head of Service. Supplementary Appro- priation authorized. s. d. Broadcasting ... ... ... 256 8 9 Miscellaneous Services ... ... 3,339 4 2 Pensions and Gratuities ... ... 9.490 19 8 Port and Marine ... ... ... 39 7 6 Post Office ... ... ... 693 7 1 Railway ... ... ... ... 29,128 8 4 Royal West African Frontier Force ... 62 5 1 (Care and Mjaintenance) Secretariat and Legislature ... ... 95 19 9 Survey ... ... ... ... 80 12 8 Investments, loss on sale of ... ... 136 6 8 Total Expenditure from General Revenue 43,322 19 8 Loan Fund Account ... .. 271 12 0 Grand Total ... ... 43,594 11 8 Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with thev Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. MLP. B!28133. 38 No. 9 Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists (Amendment). 1934 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 9 of 1934. Inl His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor- An Ordinance to Amend the Medical Practitioners, Cap. 125. Dentists and Druggists Ordinance, 1924. Date of com- [23rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. The Medical Practitioners. Dentists and Druggists of Cap. 125 Ordinance, 1924, is hereby amended by the insertion therein, by insertion immediately after section 13A, of the following new sections:- of two new sections. "Power 13B. The Governor in Cooncil may order the removal ofovernor in from the register of the name of any medical ordu'er to practitioner or dentist who- *removal of (a) is deceased; or names from register." (b) is no longer practising medicine, surgery, obstetrics or dentistry in the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone ; or No. 9 Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Druggists 1934 39 (Amendment). (c) has not supplied to the R'.:istru'i an address through which letters o, telenra-ns addressed to him at such address will be delivered to him; (d) fails to acknowledge within twelve months of the date .f despatch the receipt of a regist.'red letter addressed to him at the last address supplied by him to the Registrar; (e) has obtained registration by a fraudulent or incorrect statement; (f) has been registered through error as to his qualifications for registration. "Alter-13c. The Registrar shall from time to time insert in the nations in, register any alteration which may come to his and erasure knowledge in the name or address of any registered of names from the medical practitioner or dentist, and shall erase from the register." register the names of all such registered medical practi- tioners or dentists as are ordered by the Governor in Council to be struck out or removed : Provided that any names so struck out or removed may at any time be restored to the register without fee by direction of the Governor in Council." 3. Section 14 of the Medical Practitioners, Dentists and Repeal and Druggists Ordinance, 1924, is hereby repealed and replaced by the replacement following new section :- of eCap. 12 'Penal "14. Any person who shall wilfully and falsely pretend to be a medical practioner or dentist or take or use the name or title of a medical practitioner or dentist or any name, title, addition, or description implying that he is registered under this Ordinance, or that be is recognized by law as a medical practitioner or dentist, shall be liable, on conviction, to a penalty not exceeding fifty pounds for each offence, and to a further penalty of five pounds a day during the con- tinuance of such .II .! ...-, or, in default of payment, to imprisonment for a period not exceeding twelve months. Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me wi!h the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. M14'3i. Protectorate (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 10 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent Sto this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. No. 32 of An Ordinance to Amend the Protectorate 1933. Ordinance, 1933. Date of com- [9th December, 1933.] mencement. 1E. IT ENACTED Iby the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protectorate and cont- (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934, and shall be deemed to have meneme. come into operation on the ninth day of December, 1933. Repeal and 2. Section 5 (2) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby replacement repealed and replaced by the following new sub-section :- of section 5 (2) of Ordin- ance No. 32 "(2) An Assembly shall meet at such times and places of 1933. as a Provincial Commissioner shall direct. Insrtion of 3. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the new Part IA insertion of the following heading and section between in Principal Parts II and III of the said Ordinance:- Ordinance. 1934 40 No. 10 No. 10 Protectorate (Amendment). 1934 41 "PART IIA. ELECTION OF CHIEFS. Election7A. (1) Whenever the office of any chief shall become of chiefs. vacant the Tribal Authority of the chiefdom of which he was chief shall elect a chief to be in charge of the chiefdom and such chief shall generally maintain order and good government among the natives residing or being in the area over which the Tribal Authority exercises jurisdiction. (2) Whenever the office of any chief becomes vacant by death or otherwise r f lt whcs 0 th.~ n -.awr, and the Tribal Authority fails, neglects or refuses to elect a new chief within a period of twelve months after having been directed so to do by a Provincial Commis- sioner, then and in such case it shall be lawful for the Governor subject to the approval of the Secretary of State to appoint a person to be chief in his place." 4. Part V of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by the addition thereto of the following section:- of Part V of Principal Ordinance Occasion." 33A. Notwithstanding anything in this Part by addition al licence contained it shall be lawful for a District Commis- of new to sell sioner to issue an occasional licence in the Form AA section. spirits. in the Fourth Schedule, or as near thereto as circumstances permit, to any person to sell spirits on special occasions. Every person applying for an occasional licence shall at the same time pay to the District Commissioner a fee of ten shillings." 5. Section 34 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed and replaced by the following section :- replacement of section 34 6 of-the Principal "Deposi- 34. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor, upon Ordinance. tion of the receipt of a report from a Provincial Commis- chiefs. sioner that the conduct of any chief has been of a kind subversive of the interests of good govern- ment, to appoint a Commissioner to inquire into the matter, and also in his discretion to appoint one or more chiefs to act as assessors to such Commissioner, and every such Commissioner shall have the same powers as a Commissioner appointed under the Commissions of Inquiry Ordinance, 1924, or any Ordinance substituted therefore. Protectorate (Amendment). (2) The Commissioner shall make a report to the Governor containing a full statement of the evidence taken and of his opinion thereon. Each AXsscM .r shall sign the report, or state in writing to the Governor his dissent therefrom and the reasons for that dissent. (3) It upon review of the report aforesaid the Governor is of opinion that the chief should be deposed, the Governor may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, depose such chief, and may, pending notification of the Secretary of State's decision, suspend the chief from the exercise of his office and jurisdiction and appoint a regent in his place. In the event of the chief being suspended as" aforesaid the Governor may also order him to reside at some specified place within the province pending such notification as aforesaid, and any failure on the part of the chief to obey such an order shall constitute an offence punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeding ten pounds or by imprison- ment, without hard labour, for a period not exceeding two months. (4) If upon review of the report aforesaid the Governor is of opinion that the chief should be punished but not deposed, or if the Secretary of State does not approve of the deposition of the chief, the Governor may impose a fine, and any fine so imposed shall thereupon become due and shall be recovered in the same manner as a fine imposed by a Court of law. (5) It shall be lawful or the Governor to order any chief, who has beie deposed under the provi- sions of this section, to reside in any specified town or chiefdom j the Protectorate which may be named in theoorder, and any failure on the part of tlh chief' to obey such an order shall consti- tute an olfen i punishable, on conviction, by a fine not exceeds g one hundred pounds or by imprison- ment, w hout hard labour, for a period not exceedi g two years." Amendment of section 52 6. Section 52 (2) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby (2) of amended by the substitution of the figures 1930 for the Principal figures 1931 occurring in the sixth line therof. Ordinance. Itvi, 1934 42 No. 10 No. 10 Protectorate (Amendment). 1934 4A 7. The Fourth Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is Amendment hereby amended by the insertion therein, immediately after of Fourth SSchedule td Form A, of the following form :- Principal FORi AA. Ordinance. Occasional Spirit Licence. (Section 33A). An Occasional Licence is hereby granted to on the occasion of to sell spirits at between the hours of and on the day of 19 to be drunk in or at such locality and not elsewhere. Fee payable: 0 10s. Od. Dated this day of 19 (Signed) District Commissioner." 8. The Fifth Schedule to the Principal Ordinance isAmendment hereby amended by the substitution of the figures 40 for Schedule to the figures 41 occurring therein. Principal Ordinance. Passed in the Legislative Council this fourteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which, has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. P/5 5/33. 44 No. 11 Light and Barbour Dues (Amendment). 1934 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE, No. 11 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. Cap. 109. An Ordinance to Amend the Light and Harbour Dues Ordinance, 1924. Date cor- [23rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Light and Harbour Dues (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. The definition of "Harbour of Freetown in section 2 of of section 2 the Principal Ordinance is hereby deleted and the following of Cap. 10w. definition substituted therefore :- Harbour of Freetown means the Freetown Harbour as specified and delimited in the Ports and Inland Waters Ordinance, 1930 ". Repeal of sections 12 and 13 of Principal 3. Sections 12 and 13 of the Principal Ordinance are hereby Ordinance. repealed. Repeal of incipalto 4. The Schedule to the Principal Ordinance is hereby repealed. Ordinance. No, 11 Light and Harbour Dues (Amendment). 1934 4, Passed in the Legislative Council this fifteenth day of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. H/6133. 4d No. 12 Preetown Municipality (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 12 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent @ to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. No. 38 of An Ordinance to Amend the Freetown 1927. Municipality Ordinance, 1927. Date of com- [23rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Freetown Municipality (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. Section 8 (2) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of section amended by the deletion of the word seven" and the 8 (2) of Principal substitution therefore of the word eight." Ordinance. Repeal and 8. Section 9 (3) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby replacement repealed and replaced by the following new sub-section:- of section 9 (3) of "(3) Two Councillors shall be elected by the electors Principal to represent the Central Ward and one Coun- Ordinance cillor to represent each of the other two Wards: No. 6 of Provided always that if the number of electors 1933. who vote at an election in any Ward is less than 19.4 No. 12 Freetown Municipality (Amendment). one-third of the total number of the electors of such Ward, the election shall be null and void, and the Governor in Council shall appoint an African to represent that Ward in the Council and in the case of the Central Ward may appoint two Africans." 4. Section 21 (4) of the the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the deletion of the word three where it first of section occurs in the seventh line of the sub-section and the substitu- 214) of Principal tion therefore of the word four." rinnce. 5. Section 53 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the deletion of the words of a Councillor for of section 53 and the substitution therefore of the word in." of Principal Ordinance. 6. Section 59 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended- of section 59 of Principal (a) by the insertion after the word nomination Ordinance. where it occurs in the first and third lines of the words for any vacancy "; (b) by the deletion of the words to represent the Ward on the Council and by the substitution therefore of the words to fill the vacancy." 7. Section 63 (2) (b) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Amendment amended by the deletion of the words than one candidate of section 63 and by the substitution therefore of the words candidates (2)(b) of than there are vacancies to fill." ordinance. 8. Section 67 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed and replaced by the following new section :- replacement of section 67 "rower of 67. If the number of electors who have voted at of cinl67 Governor in the election is less than one-third of the total Ordinance. Council to ouni to number of electors on the Ward Roll, the appoint when less election shall be null and void and the Return- than one- ing Officer shall forthwith publish the fact and third of notify the Colonial Secretary for the informa- electors tion of the Governor, and the Governor in Council shall thereupon appoint an African to represent the Ward in the Council or in the case of the Central Ward may appoint two Africans." 9. Section 69 (4) (a) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed and replaced by the following:- replacement of section 69 "(a) Voting for more candidates than vacancies." (4) (a) o Principal 10. Section 1(63 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Ordinance. amended by adding thereto the following new sub-section:- Amendment of section "(5) Upon the hearing of objections to the Valuation 163 of List, the Town Clerk or such other person as Principal the President may direct shall take down in ordinance . writing a full record of the proceedings including the evidence of all witnesses examined on oath," 1934 47 48 No. 12 Freetown Municipality (Amendment). Repeal and .11. Section 165 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby osefl e nt repealed and replaced by the following new section :- 165 of "Correction 165. The Council may, whether any objection be Principal of valuation or be not made to any such Valuation List, and Ordince lists." either before or after any meeting for hearing objections, make such corrections in names, descriptions and particulars in any Valuation List, upon such information as to them may seem sufficient; and when the Council have heard and determined all such objections as aforesaid, and have made such corrections as-to them may seem proper, they shall approve the same under the corporate seal exhibiting the date of such approval." Repeal and 12. Section 168 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby replacement of section repealed and replaced by the following new section :- 168 of "Appeal 168. (1) Any person who is aggrieved by the Principal against decision of the Council on the hearing of his Ordinance. decision of Council." objection may within fourteen days after the publication of the notice of the deposit of such Valuation List, approved as aforesaid, appeal to the Supreme Court in its summary jurisdiction. (2) Such person shall give to the Council seven clear days' notice in writing of his intention to appeal and the grounds thereof. (3) Upon notice of appeal being given to the Council, they shall forward forthwith to the Registrar of the Supreme Court a copy of the pro- ceedings against which the appeal is brought, certified under the hand and signature of the President to be a true copy, together with all original documents connected therewith and the grounds of appeal. (4) The Court shall hear and determine the appeal, and either allow or disallow the same or make such order in the premises as shall be just. (5) The Court shall, subject to this Ordinance, have the same powers, jurisdiction and authority with respect to any appeals and the proceedings thereon and the costs, as if the appeal were an appeal from a decision of the Police Magis. trate." 1934 No. 12 Freetown Municipality (Amendment). 1934 49 Passed in the Legislative Council this fifteenth day of June, in the year.of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. F. 18/30. 50 No. 13 Fruit Export (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 13 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this twenty- third day of June, 1934. ARNOLD HODSON, Governor. o. 25of An Ordinance to Amend the Fruit Export 1933. Ordinance, 1933. Date of com- [23rd June, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Fruit Export (Amend- ment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. Section 2 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 2 by the insertion immediately after the definition of "Fruit of Principal Ordinance Inspector" of the following definition:- "Licensed packing house" means a packing house licensed under this Ordinance. Amendment 3. Section 3 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 3 by the addition of the following sentence:- of Principal Ordinance. No fruit shall be packed for export elsewhere than in a licensed packing house." 1934 Fruit Export (Amendment). 4. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Addition of addition thereto immediately after section 3 of the following to"e section section :- Ordinance. "Power "3A. (1) It shall be lawful for the Governor on being to satisfied that any building is suitable for use as licence packing a packing house in which to pack and store fruit house for export to grant a licence to any person to use such building as a packing house. (2) The Governor may in his absolute discretion grant or refuse any such licence without giving any reason for so doing. (3) A licence granted uider this section shall continue in force for one year from the date of grant. (4) No such licence shall be transferred without the written permission of the Governor first had and obtained." 5. Section 4 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment by the deletion of the words Any person intending to export of section 4 fruit from the Colony" and by the substitution therefore of the of Principal words "The person in charge of a licensed packing house." 6. Section 10 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment of section 10 by substituting a comma for the fullstop at the end thereof and by of Principal adding the words and in addition thereto, if the holder of a Ordinance. licence granted under section 3A, to forfeiture of such licence." Passed in the Legislative Council this fifteenth (lay of June, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. AI29/33. No. 13 1934 51 52 No. 14 (1935) Appropriation. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 14 of 1934. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this third day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Provide for the Service of the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone for the Year 1935. Date of commence- [1st January, 1935.] meant. Preamble. WIIEREAS it is necessary to make provision for the Service of the Colony and Protectorate of Sierra Leone for the year 1935; Enacting BE IT THEREFORE ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, clause, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the (1935) Appropriation Ordinance, 1934. 754,221 2. The sum of seven hundred and fifty-four thousand, Tranted for two hundred and twenty-one pounds shall be and is hereby granted et evi to His Majesty the King, His Heirs and Successors for and during Colony and the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five, and the same shall Protector- be applied and expended in the manner herein described and ate. for the several services set forth in the first and second schedules. 1934 (1985) Appropriation. 3. The said sum of seven hundred and fifty-four thousand, 754,221 two hundred and twenty-one pounds shall be and is hereby made a declared to be charged upon and made payable from and out of the chargeon the revenue for revenue and other funds of the said Colony and Protectorate for the year the year nineteenihundred and thirty-five, and the payment thereof 1935. shall be taken to begin and commence on and immediately after the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-five. 4. The Treasurer is hereby authorized and required from Treasurer's time to time, upon the Warrant or Order of the Governor, authority for to pay out of the revenue and dther funds of the said Colony payment. and Protectorate for the several services specified in the first and second schedules, the sum of seven hundred and fifty-four thousand, two hundred and twenty-one pounds, which will come in course of payment during the year ending on the thirty-first day of December, nineteen hundred and thirty-five. 5. The amount from time to time paid for and in respect Excess of of the expenditure authorized in section 2 shall not exceed in expenditure. the gross the sum of seven hundred and fifty-four thousand, two hundred and twenty-one pounds from the first day of January, nineteen hundred and thirty-five inclusive, and any balances remaining unissued at the end of the year nineteen hundred and thirty-five shall lapse and not be available for making payments in the following year. THE FIRST SCHEDULE. HEAD OF EXPENDITURE. Governor ... Agriculture Audit Broadcasting Customs ... Education Forestry Geological and Mines Judicial ... Law Officers ... Medical ... Health Branch, Medical Miscellaneous Services Motor-bus Service ... Pensions and Gratuities Police ... ... Port and Marine ..- Post Office Printing and Stationery Carried forward SUM VOTED. 5,858 14,712 5,734 1,258 18,741 40,437 5,164 3,272 9,784 4,177 47,206 18,888 22,132 3,419 51,573 20,511 4.948 15,324 9,954 303,092 No. OF ITEM. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 S 9 10 11 1la 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 1934 ' ' ''' ''' ' ' " " No. 14 (1935) Appropriation. THE FIRST SCHEDULE-continued. No. OF ITEM. Less amount Head 24 schedule provided for in the first ... ... 58,835 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-seventh (lay of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. B-50-33. HEAD OF EXPENDITURE. Brought forward ... Prisons ... Provincial Adminiistratioin Public Debt Charges . Public Works ... ... Electricity Branch, Public Works Public Works Annually Recurrent Railway (Loss and Subsidy) Royal West African Frontier Force (Sierra Leone Battalion) Royal West African Frontier Force (Care and Maintenance of Forts) Secretariat and Legislature Survey ...... ... Treasury ... .... Public Works Extraordinary . Colonial Development Fund THE SECOND SCHEDULE. Railway ... ... 192,155 SUM VOTED. 303,092 9,002 58,184 44,396 22,315 8,801 19,700 35,000 1,668 10,219 8,089 8,952 240 32,408 620,901 133,320 1934 54 No. 14 No. 15 Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment) (No. 2). 1934 55 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 15 of 1934. SIn His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Wireless Cap. 239. Telegraphy Ordinance, 1924. [7th December, 1934.] Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Wireless Telegraphy Short title. (Amendment) (No 2) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. Section 1 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended of section 1 by the addition thereto after 1924 of the words and shall of Principal apply to the Colony and Protectorate Ordinance. Amendment 3. Sections 4 and 5 of the Principal Ordinance are hereby of sections 4 amended by inserting after the word Colony where it occurs and 5 of in each section the words or Protectorate ". Principal Ordinance. 56 No. 15 Wireless Telegraphy (Amendment) (No. 2). 1934 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. R/31133, Currency Notes (Repeal). 1934 .57 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 16 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Repeal the Currency Notes Ordinance, 1924. Cap 46 Date of com- [7th December, 19,4.] menceoent. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Currency Notes Short title (Repeal) Ordinance, 1934, and shall apply to the Colony and and the Protectorate. application. Repeal 2. The Currency Notes Ordinance, 1924, is hereby repealed. of Cap. 46. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.. B/10/33. No. 16 Protectorate Vagrancy. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 17 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Control Vagrancy and to Provide for the Repatriation to their own Chiefdoms of Natives convicted before Certain Courts in the Protectorate. Date of com- mencement. [7th December, 1934.] BIE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Protectorate Vagrancy Ordinance, 1934. Definitions. 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise requires:- Native" shall have the same meaning as in the Protectorate Ordinance, 1933. District Court means a Court of a District Com- missioner as constituted by the Protectorate Courts Jurisdiction Ordinance, 1932. Native Court means a Court of a Native Chief as constituted by the Protectorate Courts Jurisdic- tion Ordinance, 1932. 1934 58 No. 17 Protectorate Vagrancy. 3. Any native belonging by native law or custom to one Native chiefdom who remains in any part of another chiefdom continously unemployed without regular employment for more than twenty-one days deemed and without any members of the chiefdom in which he is then vagrant. resident being willing to answer for him in accordance with native law or custom, or who fails to give a satisfactory account of his means of subsistence, shall be deemed an idle and disorderly person and shall be liable on summary conviction by a native court to imprisonment for any period not exceeding one month. 4. It shall be lawful for any chief, sub-chief, or headman Right to or for any court messenger to interrogate any native whom interrogate they may find in any chiefdom other than that to which the native by native law or custom belongs, or that in which he is domiciled, as to his means of subsistence, his present place of abode and the chiefdom to which he belongs, and, on his failing to answer, or if his answers be unsatisfactory, to take him to the Paramount Chief of the chiefdom in which he was found with a view to his being charged under the last preceding section. 5. If any native is convicted in the Circuit Court or in Circuit or any District Court of any offence and such native was not District born in the chiefdom in which the offence was committed and Courts, may has not resided there for a continuous period of two years repatriation previous to his being brought before the Court, then the Court of convicted may on the application of the Paramount Chief concerned natives. order that such native shall, in .addition to any punishment, be repatriated to the chiefdom to which it appears he properly belongs. Such order may be in the form set out in the Schedule to this Ordinance. 6. (1) If any native is convicted in any native court of Native any offence which such Court is competent to try, and such Court may recommend native was not born in the chiefdom in which the Court has repatriation jurisdiction and has not resided there for a continuous period of convicted of two years previous to his being brought before the Court, natives. then the Court may recommend to the District Commissioner of the district in which the chiefdom is situated that such native shall, in addition to any punishment, be repatriated to the chiefdom to which it appears he properly belongs. (2) Such native shall be sent forthwith to the District Commissioner with as fullta record of the proceedings as the circumstances permit. Power of 7. The District Commissioner shall, when a native is District brought before him by virtue of the provisions of section 6, Comnis- review the proceedings held in the Native Court and if make an order. 1934 59 No. 17 60 No. 17 Protectorate Vagrancy. 1934 satisfied that any recommendation made under the provisions of that section has been properly made, may by an order which imay be il the f'oPm set out, in the Sched- ule to this Ordinance, direct that such native shall, within a period to be specified in the order, be repatriated to the chiefdom named in the order. Execution. 8. Any repatriation order made under this Ordinance shall be carried out by such persons and in such manner as the District Commissioner shall direct, and all persons in Immunity. any way concerned in carrying out any such order shall be held harmless and no action at law shall be maintainable in respect of any act done in pursuance of any such order. Expenses of repatriation 9. All expenses incurred in the execution of a repatriation to be paid order made under this Ordinance shall be paid out of from general revenue, general revenue. Penalty in 10. If a native who has been repatriated under the cas_ of a provisions of this Ordinance shall return to the chiefdom repatriated from which he has been repatriated within a period of two native returning to years, without the consent of the Tribal Authority of such the chiefdom, he shall be guilty of an offence and shall on convic- chiefdom. tion before a District Commissioner be liable to imprisonment for a period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. Penalty for 11. Any person halbouring ;i native or assisting, aiding harbouring, or abetting a native to return to the clhiefdom from which etc. he has been repatriated and knowing that such native has been repatriated under the provisions of this Ordinance, and that the period specified in section 10 has not expired, shall be guilty of an offence a;d liable on conviction before a Direct Commissioner to ; line not exceeding forty shillings or to imprisonment Ifor a period not exceeding three months, with or without hard labour. SCHEDULE. REPATRIATION ORDER. AViiEltEAS of was on the day of convicted in the (Court held at of the offence of andt was sentenced to AND WHEREAS 1the said was not born in the Chiefdom in the District and has not resided there for a continuous period of two years but has his usual place of residence (or was born) in the Chiefdom in the District: Protectorate Vagrancy THEREFORE, I HEREBY (OiDEI( that the said shall within days from the date of this Order be repatriated to the said Chiefdom in the District. Dated at day of Judge of the Circuit Court. District Corn m i.sioner. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, 'iJrrk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, P ierk of Legislative Council. M.P.C.F. 2-33, No. 17 1934 61 62 No. 18 Stamp Duty (Amendment) COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 18 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. Cap. 199 An Ordinance to Amend the Stamp Duty Ordinance, 1924. Date of com- [7th December, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may he cited as the Stamp Duty (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Addition of 2. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the new section insertion therein immediately after section 14 of the following 14A to Cap. 199. apnew section:- Effect of "14A. A bill of exchange which is presented for non-compli- acceptance, or accepted, or payable, outside Ordinance in Sierra Leone shall not be invalid by reason only case of cer- that it is not stamped in accordance with this tain bills of Ordinance, and any such bill of exchange which exchange." is unstamped or not properly stamped may be received in evidence on payment of the proper duty or penalties as prescribed by section 14." 1934 No. 18 Stamp Duty (Amendment). 1934 63 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. B-27-34. 64 No. 19 Frederick Albert Mathias Pension. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 19 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Make Special Provision in regard to the Pension of Frederick Albert Mathias. Date of com- [14th September, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title, 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Frederick Albert application Mathias Pension Ordinance, 1934, and shall apply to the Colony and cor- and Protectorate. It shall be deemed to have come into operation mencement. on the fourteenth day of September, 1934. Authority 2. Notwithstanding the Pensions (European Officers) for payment Ordinance, 1924. a gratuity of 521. 10s. 10d. and an annual of special pension at the rate of 135. 12s. Od. shall be charged on and gratuity and pension to payable out of the general revenue of Sierra Leone to the said Frederick Frederick Albert Mathias, formerly a Colonial Treasurer of the Albert Colony, and such pension shall take effect as from the fourteenth Mathias. day of September, 1934. 1934 No. 19 Frederick Albert Mathias Pension. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Counclil and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. P.F.583. 1934 65 66 No. 20 Prisons (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 20 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. Cap. 162. An Ordinance -to Amend the Prisons Ordinance, 1924. Date of cor- [ 7th December, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone. with the advice and consent of ile Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Prisons (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. Section 11 (1) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby section 11 (1) amended by the addition of the following proviso:- "Provided that any prisoner who is suffering from any contagions or infectious disease and whose removal is urgent ma;y be removed and kept in custody as aforesaid on the warrant of the Superintendent." 1934 Prisons (Amendment). 1934 67 3. The following new section is hereby inserted in the Insertion of Principal Ordinance, after section 30 : new section in Cap. 162. "30A. Provision may be made by rules under the last "Remission preceding section for enabling a prisoner sentenced to imprisonment, whether by one sentence or cumula- tive sentences for a period of six months or over but not exceeding two years to earn by special industry and good conduct a remission of a portion of his imprisonment, and on his discharge his sentence shall be deemed to have expired." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. K-82-30. No. 20 Public Health (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 21 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. Cap. 171. An Ordinance to Amend the Public Health Ordinance, 1924, to allow the keeping of Pigs in Kissy and Waterloo Villages and to prohibit the keeping of Cattle in Freetown. Date of cor [ 7th December, 1934.] mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- Short title. 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Public Health (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. Amendment 2. Section 19 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby of section amended in the following particulars :- 19 of the Principal (a) by deleting from sub-section (1) paragraphs (a) and Ordinance. (b) and the letter and brackets (c); (b) by deleting from sub-section (2) the words and shall have the same force and effect as if it were incorporated in this section." 1934 68 No. 21 Public Health (Am endmenl, 3. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the Addition of addition of the following new section :- new section 19A. "Prohibition 19A. A person shall not keep cattle or horses o! keeping ci;ttle in Cit.. within the City as from the thirty-first day of March, 1935. For the purposes of this section the definition of Cattle in section 2 of the Principal Ordinance shall be read as if the words and comma sheep, goats and were omitted." 4. Clause 2 of the Public Health (Swine) Order in Amendment Council, 1924, is hereby amended in the following par 'ofPullic Health ticulars :-Order in (a) by deleting paragraphs (1) and (2); Council, 1924. (b) by renumbering paragraph (3) as paragraph (2); (c) by inserting the following new paragraph (1) :- '(1) The village of Leicester or the neighbourhood thereof, commonly known as the Parish of Saint Andrew other than that portion of it lying to the South-east of the right of way from Kortright to the summit of Leicester Peak." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. .LI'. M19132. No. 21 1934 69 70 No. 22 Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Force. COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 22 of 1934. L.S. A.;i c? In His Majesty's name I asent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, /Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Provide for the Establishment of a Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Force in Sierra Leone. BE IT ENACTED by the Gvernor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- Short title, 1. This Ordinance m@ be cited as the Sierra Leone Royal application Naval Volunteer Reserfe Force Ordinance, 1934, and shall and com- mencement. apply to the Colony ind Protectorate. It shall come into operation on such dste as the Governor by notice in the Gazette shall appoint. Interpreta- 2. In this Or finance, unless the context otherwise tion. requires- "The Fo e means the Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volu eer Reserve Force raised under this Ordin- anc 1934 '^;l " Actual service has t. Royal Naval Reserv incorporated in the N e same meaning as in Volunteer Act, 1859, ,val Forces Act, 1903. 1934 the 22 Vie. c. 40. as 3 Ed. VII. c. 6. 3. It shall be lawful for fhe Governor to raise and Governor maintain a force of volunteers fof the Naval Defence of Sierra may raise a Leone within or without its limits to be called the Naval Force. Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve Force." The Force may also be employed for ihe prevention or suppression of internal disorder within Sie ra Leone. 4. The Force shall be raise and maintained out of the Force to he general revenue of Sierra Leo e. o general I revenue. 5. Every member of the Fqrce shall be entered for a term Period of of three years, and shall during such term be subject to the service. provisions of this Ordinance, jand at the expiration of every third year of the period of hih service as a volunteer he shall be entitled to claim his discharge : Provided that if he is then in actual service his right to claim his discharge shall be suspended until the cessation of such service. 6. The Force shall consist of such units as the Governor Force to may from time to time by notification in the Gazette appoint, consist of units. 7. The Force shall consist of such numbers of officers and Constitution men as the Governor may from time to time decide. The of Force. officers of the Force shill receive their commissions or warrants from the Governor, and such commissions or warrants shall not be defined to be vacated by the death or retirement from office ofj the Governor by whom the same were issued. 8. The Governor may at any time dispense with the Governor may services of any member of the Force. dispense with 9. The Governor maf cause any member of the Force to Instruction. be instructed, trained abd exercised on shore or on board any ship or vessel or partly on shore and partly on board any ship or vessel within o without the limits of Sierra Leone. Provided that no menlber of the Force shall under this Ordinance be required to attend instruction training and exercise for more thal" twenty-eight days in any one year. 10. The government, organisation, administration and Organisa- training of, and the'qualifications for entry into and condi- tion, tions of service in the Force shall be prescribed by Rules conditions made by the Governor. Such Rules may in particular service, petc., to be provide for all or fany of the following matters or things, prescribed namely :- by Rules. (a) The nunferical establishments of units of the Force, and th grades, ranks and ratings therein; (b) the training and inspection of the Force, the formation of training camps, the establishment of depots or stations of the Force, and the holding of exercises for the Force; No. 22 Sierra Leone Roya Naval Volunteer Reserved Force. 72 No. 22 Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volunteer 1934 Reserve Force. tc) the attendance at course of instruction of members of the Force; / (d) the seniority of officers of t4l Force, and the appointment to, promotion to ind tenure of com- missioned or warrant rank in the Force; (e) the advancement to or reversion from petty officer rating of men of the Force; (f) the conditions as to physical fitness and efficiency on which members of the Force may continue to serve in the Force after completing their first term of service; (g) the requisitioning of goods or accommodation in time of war or emergency; (h) the calling into actual service of the members of the Force; (i) the issue and care of arms, accoutrements, ammunition, supplies, clothing and equipment for members of the Force; (j) returns, books, forms and correspondence relating to the Force; (k) the establishment and conduct of institutions for providing recreation and refreshment to members of the Force; (1) the grant of pay and allowances to members of the Force; (m) generally for the better carrying out of the provi- sions of this Ordinance. Obstructing 11. Any person wio wilfully obstructs any portion of the the Force. Force or any member thereof in the performance of any service or duty under this Ordinance or Rules made under section 10 of this O finance shall be guilty of an offence. Aiding or 12. Any person/who- memberof (a) agrees ith, or induces or attempts to induce any Force to member of the Force to neglect or to act in conflict dereliction with hi duty as a member of the Force; or of duty. (b) who is a party to, or aids or abets, or incites to the c mission of, any act whereby any lawful order iven to any member of the Force or any law or ru e with which it is the duty of any member of thi Force to comply may be evaded or infringed; or (c) who supplies or is a party to supplying any member of the Force with intoxicating liquor when such member is on duty and prohibited by rules or instructions from receiving or taking intoxicating liquor, shall be guilty of an offence. No. 22 Sierra Leone Royal Naval Volun er 1934 73 Reserve Force. 13. Any member of the Force who fails with ut just cause Failure to (the proof whereof shall lie upon him) to atten at any time attend train- or place lawfully appointed by proper authority for instruc-ing in Force. tion, training or exercise shall be guilty of an o ence. 14. Any member of the Force who, without proper Wrongful authority and permission, gives, sells, pledges, lends, or disposal of otherwise disposes of any arms, ammunition, accoutrements, property. clothing, supplies or any other article entrusted to or held by him for the service of the Force shall bi guilty of an offence, and, in addition to any other penalty which may be imposed under this Ordinance he may be ordered by the court convicting him to make good the los4 or deficiency, caused by such gift, sale, pledge, loan or other disposition. 15. Any person who on discharge from the Force fails or Wrongful neglects to render up any arms, ammunitii0i, accoutrement, detention of clothing, supplies or other article supplied tofhim as a member property. of the Force on demand being made to hpin by the proper authority shall be guilty of an offence, and pn addition to any other penalty which may be imposed undbr this Ordinance he may be ordered by the court convicting;him to make good the loss or deficiency caused by such failure or neglect. 16. (1) Any person who is guilty of a~s offence under this Penalties. Ordinance- for which no special penalty Is provided shall be liable, on summary conviction, to a fine not exceeding fifty pounds, and in default of payment, to imprisonment without hard labour for a term not exceeding three months. (2) Any member of the Force who is convicted of an offence under section 13 of this Ordinance may, in addition to or in lieu of any other penalty, be committed to detention at any depot, training camp or station of the Force, for the purpose of undergoing instruction, training or exercise during such detention; and any member of the Force who, having been committed to detention under this sub-section escapes therefrom or fails to return thereto or fails properly to carry out the instruction, training or exercise given under such detention, shall be guilty of an offence and shall be liable to imprisonment without hard labour for a term not exceeding one month: Provided that in the committal of an offender to detention under this sub-section the period of detention shall not necessarily be continuous, nor shall it exceed in any one sentence of commitment, a total number of days' detention in excess of twice the total number of days on which such member has unlawfully failed to attend the instruction, training or exercise. 74 No. 22 Sierra Leon Royal Naval Volunteer 1934 reserve Force. Passed in the Legislative Council t is twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand n in hundred and thirty-four. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has beei Bill which has passed the Legislativ( and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L, JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. carefully compared by me with the Council and found by me to be atrue J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. S.F,7/3M. Non-Native Poll Tax (Amendment) COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 23 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance Non-Native to Amend Temporarily the Poll Tax Ordinance, 1931. [1st January, 1935.] Dateof com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Non-Native Poll Tax Short title, (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. It shall come into operation on date of com- the first day of January, 1935, and shall expire at midnight on mencement the thirty-first day of December, 1935. and expiry. 2. For the period of the operation of this Ordinance, section Amendment of section 3 (1) of 3 (1) of the Principal Ordinance shall be amended by the Principal substitution of the word ".four" for the word "two" in the Odianced second line thereof, during 1935. No. 28 of 1931. No. 23 1934 75 No. 23 Non-Native Poll Tax (Amendment). 1934 Amendment 3. For the period of the operation of this Ordinance, of Principal section 4 of the Principal Ordinance shall be amended by the Ordinance. Taxdoubled substitution of the words "two pounds" for the words "one during 1935. pound in the eleventh line thereof. After 4. On the expiration of this Ordinance the Principal expiration Ordinance shall, unless and until repealed, continue in full force of this Ordinance, and effect as though this Ordinance had never been enacted but Principal subject, nevertheless, to such amendments (if any) as may be Ordinance tomade therein from time to time by any other Ordinance. continue in Provided that the expiration of this Ordinance shall not affect full force and effect the previous operation thereof, or the validity of any action taken, judgment obtained or punishment incurred during or in respect of the period of its operation under the Principal Ordinance. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. C.F. 76131. No. 24 Importation ofq Textiles (Quotas) (Amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 24 of 1934. SIn His Majesty's name I assent L.. to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Importation of Textiles (Quotas) Ordinance, 1934. No.2 of 1934. [16th June, 1934.] Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, mencement. with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Importation of Short title Textiles (Quotas) (Amendment) Ordinance, 1934. and shall be and com- deemed to have come into force on the 16th day of June, 1934. mencement. 2. Section 1 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended Amendment of Section 1 by the addition thereto after 1934" of the words "and shall of Principle apply to the Colony and Protectorate." Ordinance. Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerkl of Legislative Council. 1934 77 78 No. 24 Importation of Textiles (Quotas) (Amendment). 1934 THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION hIs been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has pas.sed the Lgisltive Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P.C.F/57,34. Court IMessengers (A amendment). COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 25 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Ac ting Governor. An Ordinance to Amend Ordinance, the Court Messengers No. 13 of 1931.1931 [ 7th December, 1934.] Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Court Messengers Short title. (Amendmendm t) Ordinance, 1934. 2. Section 4 (2) of te Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed and replaced by the following sub-section :- replacement "(2) Unless otherwise[ ordered by the Governor the of ecton Force shall be ( divided into the following grades, Principal which shall sta d with each other in order of Ordinance. precedence and co mand as they are named :- 2.; ~.1< (a) Commissi ner (b) Assistant Commissioners (c) Staff Ser ,ant-Majors (d) Sergeant- majors (e) Sergeants (f) Corporal (g) Court M ssengers (h) Probatio er Court Messengei L.S. No. 25 1934 79 Court Messengers (Amendment). Insertion of 3. The Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the new section insertion of the following new section immediately after in Principal section 6 : Ordinance. S-/y/ Amendment of section 27(1) of Prii cipal Ordinance. 6A. Notwithstanding the provisions of the last section, "Powers in any District in which court messengers are under of the immediate control of the Commissioner or an sooner or Assistant Commissioner, theACommissioner or the Assistant Assistant Commissioner shall be charged with the Commis- command and administration of that section of sioner. the Force in that District which shall have been allotted to him by the fa~iAiia Conmmissioner;,,and shall have the same powers and duties as a District Commissioner under this Ordinance. 4. Section 27 (1) of the Principal Ordinance is hereby amended by the addition thereto of the following proviso :- Provided that a Provincial Commissioner may with the sanction of the Governor permit members of the Force to be employed on such special service instead of supernumerary court messengers as aforesaid and any person employing such members of the Force shall defray their pay and all other charges and expenses consequent on their employment as if they had been enlisted as supernumerary court messengers under this section." Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of Noveinber, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. X. I CF, 20134 No. 25 1934 Roger Ernest Page Pension. 1934 81 (COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 26 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent U to this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to make Special Provision in regard to the Pension of Roger Ernest Page. [12th October, 1934.] Date of com. mencement.- BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, ;s follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Roger Ernest Page Short title, Pension Ordinance, 1934, and shall apply to the Colony and application Protectorate. It shall be deemed to have come into operation n cement on the twelfth d:;y of October, 1934. 2. Notwithstanding the Pensions (Kuropean Oti -ers) Authority Ordinance, 1924, a gratuity of 37 13s. lld. and an annual for payment pension at the rate of 10 .s. Id. shall he charged on)r of special payable out of the general revenue of Sierra Leone to the said pension to Roger Ernest Page, formerly an Assistant Colonial Secretary of Roger the Colony, and such pension shall take effect as from the ErnestPage. twelfth day of October, 1934, 3. L,a k A.A No. 26 82 No. 26 Roger Ernest Page Pension. 1934 Passed in the Legislative Council this twenty-eighth day of November. in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P, P.F. 706. No. 27 Customs (Amendment.) 1934 93 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 27 of 1934. @ In His Majesty's name I assent to this Ordinance this sixth day of December. 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Amend the Customs Cap. 49. Ordinance, 1924. [7th December, 1934.] Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows :- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Customs (Amend- Short title. ment) Ordinance, 1934. 2. Section 223 of the Principal Ordinance is hereby Repeal and repealed and replaced by the following section:-- oplaceteint ,Search of 223 (1) If any officer of Customs or of police, '223 of Cap. persons sus- 49. pectedof or any court messenger, or other person acting vugled in their aid or duly employed for the preven- goods con- tion of smuggling shall have reasonable cause eaed .upon to suspect that any person is unlawfully carrying or has any goods subject to the control of the Customs or any prohibited imports or Customs (Amendment.) exports secreted about him the following consequences shall ensue :- ti) The officer, court messenger or other person acting in their aid or duly employed for the prevention of smuggling may detain and search the suspected person. (ii) Before the suspected person shall be searched he may require to be taken before the Comptroller or other chief offictr of Customs, or before a Justice of the Peace or a District Commissioner who shall, if he sees no reasonable cause for search, discharge such person, but if otherwise, direct such person to be searched, and if a female she shall not be searched by any other than a female. (2) If any person shall obstruct any officer, court mesenger or other person in the perform- ance of any of the above duties, such person shall be liable on summary conviction to a fine not exceeding one hundred pound" (3) ^3 ^^l/u/ siealn Section 224 of the Prin pal Ordinance is/hereby of Cap. 49. repealed. Passed in the Legislative Council this thirtieth day of November, in the year of Our Lord one thousand nine hundred and thirty-four. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. THIS PRINTED IMPRESSION has been carefully compared by me with the Bill which has passed the Legislative Council and found by me to be a true and correct copy of the said Bill. J. L. JOHN, Clerk of Legislative Council. M.P. P/17/34. 84 No. 27 1934 COLONY OF SIERRA LEONE. No. 28 of 1934. In His Majesty's name I assent Sto this Ordinance this sixth day of December, 1934. T. N. GODDARD, Acting Governor. An Ordinance to Regulate the Business of Pawnbroking. [lst Janua~r, 1935.] Date of com- mencement. BE IT ENACTED by the Governor of Sierra Leone, with the advice and consent of the Legislative Council thereof, as follows:- 1. This Ordinance may be cited as the Pawnbrokers Short title. Ordinance, 1934, and shall come into operation on the first and day of January, 1935. meence- 2. In this Ordinance, unless the context otherwise ptrpreta requires:- Pawnbroker includes every person who carries on the business of taking goods in pawn; "Pledge means an article pawned with a pawn- broker; Pawner means a person delivering an article for pawn to a pawnbroker; Shop includes a dwelling-house and warehouse or other place of business, or place where business is transacted; No. 28 Pawnbrokers. 1934 85 86 No. 28 Unfinished goods or materials includes any goods of any manufacture or of any part or branch of any manufacture, either mixed or separate, or any materials whatever plainly intended for the composing or manufacturing of any goods, after such goods or materials are put into a state or course of manufacture, or into a state for any process or operation to be performed thereupon or therewith, and before the same are completed or finished for the purpose of wear or consumption. Pawnbrokers. Extension of 3. (1) The following persons shall be deemed to be Ordinanceto persons carrying on the business of taking goods in pawn- keepers of certain every person who keeps a shop for the purchase or sale of shops. goods or for taking in goods by way of security for money advanced thereon, and who purchases or receives or takes in goods and pays or advances or lends thereon, any sum of money not exceeding twenty pounds with or under an agree- ment or understanding expressed or implied, or to be from the nature and character of the dealing reasonably inferred, that those goods or chattels may be afterwards redeemed or repurchased on any terms. (2) Every such transaction, article, payment, advance and loan shall be deemed a pawning, pledge, and loan respectively within this Ordinance. Executors, 4. The provisions of this Ordinance relating to pawn- etc., of pawn- brokers shall extend to and include the executors or brokers, administrators of deceased pawnbrokers, except that an executor or administrator shall not be answerable for any penalty or forfeiture personally or out of his own estate, unless the same is incurred by his own act or neglect. Agents, 5. For the purposes of this Ordinance anything done servants, or omitted by the servant, apprentice, or agent of a pawn- apprentices, broker in the course of or in relation to the business of the etc., of pawn- brokers, pawnbroker shall be deemed to be done or omitted (as the case may be) by the pawnbroker; and anything by this Ordinance authorized to be done by a pawnbroker may be done by his servant, apprentice, or agent. Assigns, 6. The rights, powers and benefits by this Ordinance executors, reserved to and conferred on pawners shall extend to, and etc.,n o be deemed to be reserved to and conferred on, the assigns of pawners, and to and on the executors and administrators of deceased pawners; but any person representing himself to a pawnbroker to be the assign, executor, or administrator of a pawner shall, if required by the pawnbroker, produce to the pawnbroker the assignment, probate, letters of adminis- tration, or other instrument under which he claims. Pawnbrokers. 1934 7. This Ordinance shall apply- Application (1) To every loan by a pawnbroker of five pounds of Ordiance in respect of or under; loans. (2) To every loan by a pawnbroker of above five pounds and not above twenty pounds, except as otherwise provided in section 20. Nothing in this Ordinance shall apply to a loan by a pawnbroker of above twenty pounds or to the pledge on which the loan is made, or to the pawnbroker or pawner in relation to the loan or pledge; and notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance, a person shall not he deemed a pawnbroker by reason only of his paying, advancing, or lending on any terms any sum or sums of above twenty pounds. General Obligations of Pawnbrokers. 8. A pawnbroker shall keep and use in his business such Pawn- books and documents as are described in the First Schedule brokers to in the forms therein indicated or to the like effect, and shall keep books, etc., as in from time to time as occasion requires enter therein, in a schedule. fair and legible manner, the particulars indicated in and in accordance with the directions of that schedule, and shall make all inquiries necessary for that purpose. If a pawnbroker fails in any respect to comply with the requisitions of this section he shall be guilty of an offence. 9. A pawnbroker shall always- Pawn- (a) keep exhibited in large characters, over the outer brokers to door of his shop his name with the wordkeep names over doors, Pawnbroker "; and andtables of rates, etc., (b) keep placed in a conspicuous part of his shop (so exhibited in as to be legible by every person pawning or redeem- shop. ing pledges, standing in any box or place provided in the shop for persons pawning or redeeming pledges) the same information as is, by the rules of the First Schedule, required to be printed on a pawn-ticket. If a pawnbroker fails in any respect to comply with the requisitions of this section he shall le guilty of an offence. Pawning, Redemption and Sale. 10. A pawnbroker shall, on taking a pledge in pawn, give Pawn- to the pawner a pawn-ticket, and shall not take a pledge in tickets to be pawn unless the pawner takes the pawn-ticket. given for pledges. 11. (1) A pawnbroker may take profit on a loan on a Profit and pledge at a rate not exceeding that specified in the Second charges Schedule, allowed to awn- rokers. No. 28 Pawnbrokers. 1934 87 (2) A pawnbroker may demand and take the charges specified in the Second Schedule, in the cases and according to the rules therein stated and prescribed. (3) A pawnbroker shall not, in respect of a loan on a pledge, take any profit, or demand or take any charge or sum whatever, other than those specified in the Second Schedule. (4) A pawnbroker shall, if required at the time of redemption, give a receipt for the amount of loan and profit paid to him; and such receipt shall not be liable to stamp duty unless the profit amounts to two pounds or more. Ledges 12. Every pledge shall be redeemable within twelve redeemable for one yearwith months from the day of pawning, exclusive of that day; and seven days of there shall be added to that year of redemption seven days grace. of grace, within which every pledge (if not redeemed within the year of redemption) shall continue to be redeemable. Pledges for 13. A pledge pawned for ten shillings, or under, if not ten shilligs or redeemed within the year of redemption and days of grace, under not redeemed in shall, at the end of the days of grace become and be the time forfeited. pawnbroker's absolute property. Pledges 14. A pledge pawned for above ten shillings shall further above ten continue redeemable until it is disposed of, as in this Ordin- shillings dance provided, although the year of redemption and days of redeemable until sale. grace are expired. Sale by auc. 15. (1) A pledge pawned for above ten shillings shall tion of when disposed of by the pawnbroker be disposed of by sale pledges by public auction, and not otherwise; and the rules contained above ten in the Third Schedule shall be observed with reference to the sale. (2) A pawnbroker may bid for and purchase at a sale by auction, made or purporting to be made under this Ordin- ance, a pledge pawned with him; and on such purchase he shall be deemed the absolute owner of the pledge purchased. Offences by 16. If an auctioneer does anything in contravention of auctioneers, the provisions of this Ordinance relating to auctioneers, or fails to do anything which he is required by this Ordinance to do, he shall te guilty of an offence. Power to 17. At any time within three years after the auction at inspect sale which a pledge pawned for above ten shillings is sold, the book. holder of the pawn-ticket may inspect the entry of the sale in the pawnbroker's book, and in the filled-up catalogue of the auction (authenticated by the signature of the auctioneer) or in either of them. Pawnbrokers. 1934 883 No. 28 18. (1) Where a pledge pawned for above ten shillings Pawnbroker is sold, and appears from the pawnbroker's book to have been to account sold for more than the amount of the loan and profit due at hi hrusee the time of sale, the pawnbroker shall, on demand, pay the years subject surplus to the holder of the pawNn-ticket, in case the demand to set-off. is made within three years after the sale, the necessary costs and charges of the sale being first deducted. (2) If on any such demand, it appears from the pawnbroker's book that the sale of a pledge or pledges has resulted in a surplus, and that withlin twelve months before or after that sale the sale of another pledge or other pledges of the same person has resulted in a deficit the pawnbroker may set off the deficit against the surplus, and shall be liable to pay the balance only after such set off. 19. If with respect to pledges for loans of above ten Offences as shillings a pawnbroker- to pledges (1) does not bona fide, according to the directions of for above this Ordinance, sell a pledge pawned with him; or (2) enters in his book a pledge as sold for less than the sum for which it was sold, or fails duly to enter the same; or (3) refuses to permit any person entitled under this Ordinance to inspection of an entry of sale in the pawnbroker's book, or of a filled-up catalogue of the auction (authenticated by the signature of the auctioneer), to inspect the same; or (4) fails without lawful excuse (the proof whereof shall lie on him) to produce such a catalogue on lawful demand; or (5) refuses to pay on demand the surplus to the person entitled to receive the same: he shall in every such case be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to forfeit to the person aggrieved a sum not exceeding ten pounds. 20. Notwithstanding anything in this Ordinance a Special pawnbroker may make a special contract with a pawner in contracts. respect of a pledge on which the pawnbroker makes a loan of above five pounds, provided always that; (1) the pawnbroker at the time of the pawning shall deliver to the pawner a special contract pawn-ticket signed by the pawnbroker; (2) a duplicate of the special contract pawn-ticket shall be signed by the pawner. The provisions of this Ordinance, save as far as the application thereof is excluded by the terms of the special contract, shall apply thereto. No. 28 Pawnbrokers. 1934 89 90 No. 28 A special contract pawn ticket, or the duplicate shall not be subject to stamp duty. Delivery up of Pledge. Holder of 21. The holder for the time being of a pawn-ticket shall pawn-ticket be presumed to be the person entitled to redeem the pledge, entitled o and, subject to the provisions of this Ordinance, the pawn- broker shall accordingly (on payment of the loan and profit) deliver the pledge to the person producing the pawn-ticket, and he is hereby indemnified for so doing. Production 22. A pawnbroker shall not (except as in this Ordinance tof ake provided) be bound to deliver back a pledge unless the pawn- redemption, ticket for it is delivered to him. Liability of 23. Where a pledge is destroyed or damaged by or in pawnbroker consequence of fire, the pawnbroker shall nevertheless be fire. liable, on application within the period during which the pledge would have been redeemable, to pay the value of the pledge, after deducting the amount of the loan and profit, such value to be the amount of the loan and profit, and twenty-five per cent. on the amount of the loan. A pawnbroker shall be entitled to insure to the extent of the value so estimated. Compen- 24. If a person entitled and offering to redeem a pledge depein i on shows to the satisfaction of a magistrate that the pledge has of pledge. become or has been rendered of less value than it was at the time of the pawning thereof by or through the default, neglect, or wilful misbehaviour of the pawnbroker, the magistrate may, if he thinks fit, award a reasonable compensation to the owner of the pledge in respect of the damage, and the amount awarded shall be deducted from the amount payable to the pawnbroker, or shall be paid by the pawnbroker (as the case requires) in such manner as the magistrate may direct. Protection 25. The following provisions shall have effect for the of owners protection of owners of articles pawned, and of pawners not owners not having their pawn-tickets to produce:- Eaving pawn- (a) Any person claiming to be the owner of a pledge tickets. buL not holding the pawn-ticket, or any person claiming to be entitled to hold a pawn-ticket, but alleging that the same has been lost, mislaid, destroyed, or stolen, or fraudulently obtained from him, may apply to the pawnbroker for a printed form of declaration, which the pawnbroker shall deliver to him; (b) If the applicant delivers back to the pawnbroker the declaration duly made by him, and by a person identifying him, before a Justice of the Peace, the applicant shall thereupon have, as between him and the pawnbroker, all the same rights and remedies 1934 Pawnbrokers. as if he produced the pawn-ticket: Provided that such a declaration shall not be effectual for that purpose unless it is duly made and delivered back to the pawnbroker not later than on the third day after the day on which the form is delivered to the applicant by the pawnbroker (exclusive of a day or days on which the pawnbroker is prohibited from carrying on business); (c) The pawnbroker is hereby indemnified for not delivering the pledge to any person until the expiration of the period aforesaid; (d) The pawnbroker is further hereby indemnified for delivering the pledge or otherwise acting in con- formity with the declaration, unless he has actual or constructive notice that the declaration is fraudulent or is false in any material particular. 26. In each of the following cases :- owiery to (1) If any person is convicted under this Ordinance of opewfly knowingly and designedly pawning with a pawn- pawned. broker anything being the property of another person, the pawner not being employed or authorized by the owner thereof to pawn the same; (2) If any person is convicted of feloniously taking or fraudulently obtaining any goods, and it appears to the court that the same have been pawned with a pawnbroker; (3) If in any proceedings it appears to the court that any goods brought before the court have been unlawfully pawned with a pawnbroker; the court, on proof of the ownership of the goods, may, if it thinks fit, order the delivery thereof to the owner, either on payment to the pawnbroker of the amount of the loan or of any part thereof, or without payment thereof or of any part thereof, as to the court, according to the conduct of the owner and the other circumstances of the case, may seem just and fitting. 27. If a pawnbroker, without reasonable excuse (the Summary proof whereof shall lie on him), refuses or neglects to deliver order for a pledge to the person entitled to have delivery thereof under deliveryof this Ordinance, he shall be guilty of an offence against this person Ordinance and a magistrate may, if he thinks fit, with or entitled. without imposing a penalty, order the delivery of the pledge pn payment of the amount of the loan and profit, 1934 91 No. 28 Pawnbrokers. 92 No. 28 Pawnbrokers. 1934 General Restrictions on Pawnbrokers. Prohibition 28. Any pawnbroker who- of pur- chasing (1) takes an article in pawn from any person appearing pledges; to be under the age of fourteen years or to be taking intoxicated; or pledges from children, etc. (2) purchasers or takes in pawn or exchange a pawn- ticket issued by another pawnbroker; or (3) employs any servant or apprentice or other person under the age of sixteen years to take pledges in pawn; or (4) under any pretence purchases, except at public auction, any pledge while in pawn with him; or (5) suffers any pledge while in pawn with him to be redeemed with a view to his purchasing it; or (G) makes any contract or agreement with any person pawning or offering to pawn any article, or with the owner thereof, for the purchase, sale, or disposition thereof within the time of redemp- tion; or (7) sells or otherwise disposes of any pledge pawned with him, except at such time and in such manner as authorized by this Ordinance; or (8) takes any goods or chattels in pawn from any person between 6 o'clock in the evening and 6 o'clock in the morning of the following day; or (9) carries on business of a pawnbroker on Sunday, Christmas day, or Good Friday, shall be guilty of an offence. Unlawful Paoning and taking in Pawn. Unlawful 29. (1) Any person who knowingly and designedly pawns pawning of with a pawnbroker anything being the property of another goods iot person, the pawner not being employed or authorised by the property o pawner. owner thereof to pawn the same, shall be guilty of an offence and liable on summary conviction thereof to forfeii; any sum not exceeding five pounds, and, in addition thereto, any sum not exceeding the full value of the pledge as ascertained by the court. (2) The forfeitures when recovered shall be applied towards making satisfaction thereout to the party injured, and defraying the cost of prosecution, as the court may direct; but if the party injured declines to accept of such satisfaction and costs, or if there is any surplus of the forfeitures, then the forfeitures or surplus (as the case may be) shall be paid into general revenue. |